From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKahw-0000Wo-OS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:43:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKaht-0000WZ-HV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:43:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKaht-0000WV-CJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:43:29 -0500 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HKahs-0001yT-Tx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:43:29 -0500 Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070223134326.HXKY1468.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:43:26 +0000 Received: from phoenix2.valgrind.org ([82.21.100.63]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20070223134326.QIMV29112.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@phoenix2.valgrind.org> for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:43:26 +0000 From: Julian Seward Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:41:22 +0000 References: <200702211355.22075.julian@valgrind.org> <200702212205.35192.robin@binro.org> In-Reply-To: <200702212205.35192.robin@binro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702231341.22867.jseward@acm.org> 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 Thanks for the feedback. Since I do not wish to be involved in a great battle (as you so nicely put it) I'll stick with VMware (sigh). J On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:05, Robin Atwood 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 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.) > 5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing > the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files. > > 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! > > HTH > -Robin.