[Qemu-devel] X-Window under Mac OSX

[Qemu-devel] X-Window under Mac OSX

[Loreley Giraudon]

Hello,

im trying to initiate the following command:

kvm -hda mysql.img -m 256 -monitor stdio -cdrom debian-6.0.5-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d
open /dev/kvm: Permission denied


But i receive the following error message:

Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
QEMU 0.12.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) unknown keycodes `empty_aliases(qwerty)', please report to qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Can you tell me why?

Re: [Qemu-devel] X-Window under Mac OSX

[Andreas Färber]

Hello,

Am 26.11.2012 02:31, schrieb Loreley Giraudon:
> im trying to initiate the following command:
> 
> kvm -hda mysql.img -m 256 -monitor stdio -cdrom debian-6.0.5-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d
> open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
> 
> 
> But i receive the following error message:
> 
> Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
> QEMU 0.12.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) unknown keycodes `empty_aliases(qwerty)', please report to qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> 
> Can you tell me why?

Can you tell us where you got a "kvm" binary for Mac OS X? QEMU does not
ship such a thing, it builds qemu-system-x86_64 etc. binaries and the
latest version is v1.3.0-rc0.

Regards,
Andreas

Re: [Qemu-devel] X-Window under Mac OSX

[Andreas Färber]

Am 26.11.2012 19:11, schrieb Loreley Giraudon:
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de
> <mailto:andreas.faerber@web.de>> wrote:
>> Am 26.11.2012 02:31, schrieb Loreley Giraudon:
>>> im trying to initiate the following command:
>>>
>>> kvm -hda mysql.img -m 256 -monitor stdio -cdrom
>>> debian-6.0.5-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d
>>> open /dev/kvm: Permission denied
>>>
>>>
>>> But i receive the following error message:
>>>
>>> Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
>>> QEMU 0.12.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>>> (qemu) unknown keycodes `empty_aliases(qwerty)', please report to
>>> qemu-devel@nongnu.org <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
>>>
>>> Can you tell me why?
>>
>> Can you tell us where you got a "kvm" binary for Mac OS X? QEMU does not
>> ship such a thing, it builds qemu-system-x86_64 etc. binaries and the
>> latest version is v1.3.0-rc0.

> Im currently following the below instructions.
>
>
> 1) DEBIAN SQEEZE - Create a disk image to install to (this one is 10GB
> large):
>
>   qemu-img create -f qcow2 winxp.img 10G
>
>
> 2) DEBIAN SQEEZE - Perform an installation to the VM (need to be in an X
> session):
>
>   kvm -hda winxp.img -m 1024 -monitor stdio   -cdrom winxp-installer.iso
> -boot d
>
>
> 3) MAC OSX - Run the newly installed VM (need to be in an X session):
>
>   kvm -hda winxp.img -m 1024 -monitor stdio

Then your problem is not "under Mac OSX" at all but under Debian! CC'ing
a Debian maintainer.

You may need to modprobe the correct AMD or Intel KVM kernel module. If
that fails, your hardware may not support virtualization or the BIOS has
it disabled. Could also be a permissions issue, sudo might help.

Warnings about keycodes can usually just be ignored.

Andreas

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