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From: Uri Lublin <uri@il.qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: Fail to create disk.img
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:48:27 +0300
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Stephen Liu wrote:
> --- Uri Lublin <uri@il.qumranet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
>>>> # qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu6.06_080805.img 10G
>>> Formatting 'ubuntu6.06_080805.img', fmt=qcow2, size=10485760 kB
>>>
>>>
>>> # kvm -hdb ubuntu6.06_080805.img -cdrom /dev/scd0 -m 512 -boot d
>> -smp 2
>>>      =======================|  DirectFB 1.0.1 
>> |=======================
>>>           (c) 2001-2007  The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
>>>           (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
>>>        
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-04-08 15:15) 
>>> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libc memcpy()
>>> (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
>>>     --> No such file or directory
>>> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
>>> (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER
>> environment
>>> variable.
>>> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
>>>     --> Initialization error!
>>> Could not initialize SDL - exiting
>>> * end *
>>>
>>>
>>> without "-smp 2" still the same.
>> Does xterm work ?
> 
> Yes, it is working.  I'm configuring the server remotely.
> 
>  
>> Try adding "-vnc :9" 
> 
> # kvm -hdb ubuntu6.06_20080805.img -cdrom /dev/scd0 -m 512 -boot d -smp
> 2 -vnc :9
> 
> It is hanging here,
> 
> 
>> and connect with a vnc viewer, 
> 
> $ vncviewer 192.168.0.110:9
> 
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Sep 10 2007 16:58:22
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> 
> 
> The viewer did not start
> 
> 
>> or use xauth (or
>> ssh -X) to 
>> set permissions to run with SDL.
> 
> Please explain in detail how to do that?  TIA
> 

I thought it might be something with X permissions, but it is not.