From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4mz7-00010g-81 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:54:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4mz5-00010G-8U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:54:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4mz5-00010D-5j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:54:35 -0400 Received: from [147.102.222.220] (helo=diomedes.noc.ntua.gr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C4msm-0002FY-D8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:48:04 -0400 Received: from dblab.ece.ntua.gr (ithaca.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.1]) by diomedes.noc.ntua.gr (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i87Km0jD006077 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:48:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from estama@dblab.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from [147.102.230.71] (ppp-230-071.dialup.ntua.gr [147.102.230.71]) by dblab.ece.ntua.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i87Klxqm004382 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:47:59 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from estama@dblab.ece.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <413E2145.5090607@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 23:59:49 +0300 From: Elefterios Stamatogiannakis MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X References: <33ECF18C-010C-11D9-99AC-00039347B912@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <33ECF18C-010C-11D9-99AC-00039347B912@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Steve Roy wrote: > Hi! > > I came upon Qemu as I was looking for a way to run Linux from Mac OS X. > I'm a Java developer and need to test my software on Linux. I spend most > of my time in Mac OS X and sometimes boots into Yellow Dog Linux for > testing, but it would be very useful if I could just boot Linux directly > without leaving Mac OS X. > > I downloaded and installed Qemu for Mac OS X. I was able to successfully > boot the linux.img from linux-test-xxx.tar.gz. Now I'm trying to move up > to something more complete, so following the screen shots seen on > that show Mandrake 10 running on Mac > OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from > , and am trying to run it. > > Just to make sure, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2, which I > decompressed with the tar tool to get mandrake-10.0-x86.img. Then I did > this from a terminal window: > > qemu -hda mandrake-10.0-x86.img -boot c -m 128 -std-vga -user-net > > Which launches Linux and gets me to the login prompt. I type root, and > the download page says it should boot > directly into KDE, but all I get is the command line. How do I get a UI > going? > > Steve Try "startx" or "xinit" teris.