From: Elefterios Stamatogiannakis <estama@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 23:59:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413E2145.5090607@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33ECF18C-010C-11D9-99AC-00039347B912@mac.com>
Steve Roy wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I came upon Qemu as I was looking for a way to run Linux from Mac OS X.
> I'm a Java developer and need to test my software on Linux. I spend most
> of my time in Mac OS X and sometimes boots into Yellow Dog Linux for
> testing, but it would be very useful if I could just boot Linux directly
> without leaving Mac OS X.
>
> I downloaded and installed Qemu for Mac OS X. I was able to successfully
> boot the linux.img from linux-test-xxx.tar.gz. Now I'm trying to move up
> to something more complete, so following the screen shots seen on
> <www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake 10 running on Mac
> OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from
> <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, and am trying to run it.
>
> Just to make sure, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2, which I
> decompressed with the tar tool to get mandrake-10.0-x86.img. Then I did
> this from a terminal window:
>
> qemu -hda mandrake-10.0-x86.img -boot c -m 128 -std-vga -user-net
>
> Which launches Linux and gets me to the login prompt. I type root, and
> the <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> download page says it should boot
> directly into KDE, but all I get is the command line. How do I get a UI
> going?
>
> Steve
Try "startx" or "xinit"
teris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-07 20:26 [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X Steve Roy
2004-09-07 20:59 ` Elefterios Stamatogiannakis [this message]
2004-09-07 21:31 ` David E. Still
2004-09-08 1:04 ` Steve Roy
2004-09-08 2:05 ` Steve Roy
2004-09-08 2:16 ` Bartosz Fabianowski
2004-09-08 8:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christian Walther
2004-09-08 12:43 ` Steve Roy
2004-09-08 14:07 ` Christian Walther
2004-09-08 14:44 ` Steve Roy
[not found] <200409072206.482413e6917281@rly-xh01.mx.aol.com>
2004-09-08 4:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fred Hope
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