From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaGMg-0006gl-Jx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:27:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaGMd-0006zj-Di for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:27:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaGMd-0006zf-8A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:27:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:27:17 +0800 From: Fam Zheng Message-ID: <20160229052717.GB1486@ad.usersys.redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Installing guest OS in VM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sarah Khan Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, 02/28 10:37, Sarah Khan wrote: > Hi, > I have been looking forward to participate in outreachy round 12.So, I was > trying to install guest OS in VM according to instructions as given on this > link: > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux but I am stuck after the > instruction which tells to boot PC-BIOS which is > > bin/debug/native/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios > > After running this I get:VNC server running on '127.0.0.1;5900'and nothing. If you recompile with sdl or gtk support, you will get a window showing the guest console. It looks like you have neither, but you can still use "vncviewer 127.0.0.1:5900" to connect to the vnc server. Fam > > Can someone suggest that I am going correct or not? Also after this > how to go about this command: > ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 16G > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah