From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJuh-0007oS-5H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:01:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJuX-0007ko-8a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:01:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCJuX-0007bw-19 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:01:17 -0500 Received: from [128.8.10.164] (helo=po2.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCJfc-0000iV-8R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:45:52 -0500 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.237.180]) by po2.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2IFjoOt018960 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:45:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:45:50 -0500 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu problem (you might be my last resort) Message-ID: <20050318154550.GA21274@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <423A9AF8.2010304@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <423A9AF8.2010304@web.de> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:10:16AM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:06:22PM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote: > >> When I start qemu with the following command: > >> > >> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -snapshot -m 256 > >> > >> with any bootable CD in the drive, I only get a qemu window with the > >> tile 'qemu stopped'. I cannot get into the monitor by pressing ctrl + > >> alt + 2 or do anything else except ctrl + c in the terminal where I > >> started qemu to cancel it. > Out of curiosity, does it work if you use an iso image instead of /dev/cdrom? If you "-boot a" from a floppy disk image, will that work or does it have the same error? (You can download a FreeDOS boot disk if u don't have a way to get a bootable floppy disk image). > >> > >> The command used to work perfectly with various versions of qemu, but > >> now doesn't anymore. I've tried CVS versions after 0.6.1 stopped > >> working, but to no avail. > >> > Does using older versions of qemu work? (Sorry if I'm asking questions that you have already answered but I don't remember the original email). > > >> > >> At first only my user ID had the problem, and root worked - but then I > >> tried the -m 350 parameter with root, too, (not thinking, at the time, > >> that it could be the cause of the problem) and since then, root hasn't > >> been able to use qemu anymore either. > > >if u add a new user, can that user use qemu (provided you don't try > "-m 350") ? > > No, I tried that yesterday, but a new user gets the same error. Root > used not to get it when the user already did, but after using -m 350 > with root, it no longer worked for root either. > This is the most confusing thing of all. -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.