From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJtxr-0000Zp-Ia for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJtxq-0000YB-LF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJtxq-0000Y2-7H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:06 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao02.cox.net ([68.230.240.37]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HJtxp-0005Te-Mm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:05 -0500 Message-ID: <7458963.1172073905035.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml03.mgt.cox.net> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:05 -0500 From: Ben Taylor Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: sol10x86@cox.net, 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 Cc: Robin Atwood ---- 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 This is a good recommendation for any install. I know I must have 4-5 copies of my working Win98SE and WinXPHome images. > 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.) How much memory are you giving the virtual machine. Solaris 10 really needs 384MB and more like 512 for S10U3 to run reasonably. > 5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing > the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files. That really sounds like a problem with the checksum of the DVD iso or a bad DVD burn. I must have burned 4-5 copies of S10U3 this weekend and finally got a DVD-RW to work with no errors after writing it on one machine, pulling the DVD writer and putting on the machine to install. > 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! That's very odd. Solaris's UFS is a very stable file system. I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes. Ben