From: Ben Taylor <sol10x86@cox.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7458963.1172073905035.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml03.mgt.cox.net> (raw)
---- Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Julian Seward wrote:
> > (replying off list)
> >
> > So you have Solaris 10 (x86 ?) running on qemu-0.9 ? Is it stable?
> > Does it work? I have it running on vmware-5.5.3 but would prefer to
> > move to running it on qemu if possible; however I've had mixed
> > results with qemu in the past and don't want to spend loads of time
> > on failed attempts to get it to work. Hence the question.
>
> It was a great battle to install but now it is stable. Do the following
> things:
> 1. install from the DVD image
> 2. Use the text console install
> 3. At the end of the install, backup the image file *before* the first reboot
This is a good recommendation for any install. I know I must have
4-5 copies of my working Win98SE and WinXPHome images.
> 4. If during the first boot of the image, you get a segfault, restore and try
> again until you get to a prompt. Ignore any service failures. (the filesystem
> seems prone corruption at the first boot.)
How much memory are you giving the virtual machine. Solaris 10 really
needs 384MB and more like 512 for S10U3 to run reasonably.
> 5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing
> the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files.
That really sounds like a problem with the checksum of the DVD
iso or a bad DVD burn. I must have burned 4-5 copies of S10U3 this
weekend and finally got a DVD-RW to work with no errors after
writing it on one machine, pulling the DVD writer and putting on
the machine to install.
> After that, I was able to boot reliably into X. However, the filesystem seems
> very fragile if not shut down cleanly, so take regular backups!
That's very odd. Solaris's UFS is a very stable file system.
I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes.
Ben
next reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 16:05 Ben Taylor [this message]
2007-02-21 16:54 ` [Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg? Robin Atwood
[not found] <200702211355.22075.julian@valgrind.org>
2007-02-21 15:05 ` Robin Atwood
2007-02-23 13:41 ` Julian Seward
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-21 14:36 Ben Taylor
2007-02-21 15:08 ` Robin Atwood
2007-03-02 15:59 ` Robin Atwood
2007-02-21 13:40 Robin Atwood
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