Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: winblows 2k on OSX?

["André Braga" <meianoite@gmail.com>]

I tried running a CD straight from the block device node and it failed
*every time*, irregardless of the permissions or the user I tried
running QEMU from. So I'd say you can't do it, as simple as that (but
I haven't tried booting straight as the root user on OS X; that might
work but I seriously doubt it). Images always work, though.

André

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:09:08 +0200, René Korthaus <wlannews@cordney.com> wrote:
> 
> Am 22.07.2004 um 20:39 schrieb Jason:
> 
> > well, I was using that actually, but I just wanted to doublecheck..
> > I created a blank image file, and when I run that, I get
> >
> > mybox:~/qemu_images root# /opt/local/bin/qemu win2k.img -cdrom
> > /dev/disk1s0 -boot d
> > /dev/disk1s0: Device busy
> > qemu: could not open hard disk image '/dev/disk1s0
> > mybox:~/qemu_images root#
> >
> > thats after I ejected, re-inserted the win2k cdrom. Im not sure why
> > its busy,
> > but Im sure that /dev/disk1s0 is the CDROM on OSX.
> 
> I tried booting qnx 6.2.1 with -cdrom /dev/disk1 on ibook (got device
> name out of system profiler) and cdrom mounted in finder. Could not
> access cd0 from qnx, but unmounting the cdrom drive by the finder did
> not eject it also!! So i guess it was used by qnx now. All of your
> variants with -cdrom /dev/disk xy resulted in "could not open hard disk
> image....", but booting with /dev/disk1 worked til "could not read boot
> disk" by bios-screen. I cannot try this with a bootable cd, because i
> justed moved and cannot find my w98 and w2k cds. But i will have a look
> and post....
> 
> >
> > regards,
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:24:08AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> Jason <jason@monsterjam.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> a friend just turned me onto the qemu and I have it installed on my
> >>> powerbook
> >>> running OSX. Ive run the sample linux and dos images, but how would
> >>> I go about
> >>> installing win2k from CD?
> >>
> >> Create a disk image, e.g. w2k.img, then boot Windows 2k from the
> >> CD, e.g.:
> >>         qemu w2k.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d
> >> I don't know what the name of the OS X CD-ROM device is; the
> >> above assumes /dev/cdrom.
> >>
> >> After install finishes, you should be able to boot directly from
> >> the disk image, e.g.
> >>         qemu w2k.img



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