[Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Thomas Harte]

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I have just switched from Windows to Mac OS X 10.3.8 and thought I might give QEMU a try for playing some old DOS games and maybe even attempting a Windows installation.

I apologise if this topic keeps coming up again and again but I cannot find an archive or a search function for this mailing list. On the topic of things that may be down to my stupidity, I apologise if I'm doing something blatantly obviously wrong. The 'read me' that appears during the Qemu installation procedure is not particularly thorough and doesn't answer my questions.

Anyway, I grabbed the QEMU installer from FreeOSZoo and QEmuX, which states that all related questions should be posted here. Running the installer has the very strange result of placing the qemu binary into /opt/local/bin to which only the superuser has access. As I am not willing to log in as root any more than absolutely necessary I thought I would ask here - why is qemu installed to that location? If I want to uninstall it (to instead install elsewhere), how would I achieve that? Is there a way to install to some other location using the available installer, or must I build for myself and move things around? Is it safe to just move around the already installed files?

-Thomas

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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Selon Thomas Harte <thomasharte@lycos.co.uk>:


> Anyway, I grabbed the QEMU installer from FreeOSZoo and QEmuX

QemuX automatically downloads a workin Qemu at first run... So no need for the
Qemu installer at freeoszoo.

Anyway this installer needs an update that I won't do now...

Fabrice, what about having (temporarily?) QemuX as the Mac OS X download link
instead of the old freeoszoo package?

Pierre.

Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Thomas Harte]

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EmuX gives the option of installing a 'working' Qemu on first run but if you decline subsequently offers no particularly obvious way of doing so. After doing an entire drive search for Qemu and deleting everything  I could find, I was offered again.

This time I accepted and a 'working' qemu is placed into /Applications/Qemu. But it doesn't work. It is linked against /opt/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib. Which is not a folder that anyone other than the superuser has access to. In fact nothing but that version of libSDL is in there so I assume it has been put in place by QemuX.

So I am still in the position where I have a qemu installed that is only runnable by root. Surely this can't be as intended? Is there some way to persuade qemu to use SDL elsewhere? I guess my only solution may be to build qemu for myself against a properly installed SDL framework.

-Thomas

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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Niko Matsakis]

Has anyone considered making Qemu available through Fink?  I have no 
real understanding of the work involved, but when I built Qemu from 
source I just installed libsdl through fink and it seemed like it would 
be great to be able to get the Qemu sources the same way.


Niko

On Mar 27, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Thomas Harte wrote:

> EmuX gives the option of installing a 'working' Qemu on first run but 
> if you decline subsequently offers no particularly obvious way of 
> doing so. After doing an entire drive search for Qemu and deleting 
> everything  I could find, I was offered again.
>
> This time I accepted and a 'working' qemu is placed into 
> /Applications/Qemu. But it doesn't work. It is linked against 
> /opt/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib. Which is not a folder that anyone 
> other than the superuser has access to. In fact nothing but that 
> version of libSDL is in there so I assume it has been put in place by 
> QemuX.
>
> So I am still in the position where I have a qemu installed that is 
> only runnable by root. Surely this can't be as intended? Is there some 
> way to persuade qemu to use SDL elsewhere? I guess my only solution 
> may be to build qemu for myself against a properly installed SDL 
> framework.
>
> -Thomas
>
> Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at 
> mail.lycos.co.uk
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Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeOsZoo Mac OS X installer woes

[Asko Kauppi]

[iMac:~] asko% fink apropos qemu
Information about 4616 packages read in 10 seconds.
  i   qemu             0.6.1-1      Fast CPU Emulator


28.3.2005 kello 11:29, Niko Matsakis kirjoitti:

>  Has anyone considered making Qemu available through Fink?  I have no 
> real understanding of the work involved, but when I built Qemu from 
> source I just installed libsdl through fink and it seemed like it 
> would be great to be able to get the Qemu sources the same way.
>
> Niko
>
> On Mar 27, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Thomas Harte wrote:
>
>> EmuX gives the option of installing a 'working' Qemu on first run but 
>> if you decline subsequently offers no particularly obvious way of 
>> doing so. After doing an entire drive search for Qemu and deleting 
>> everything  I could find, I was offered again.
>>
>> This time I accepted and a 'working' qemu is placed into 
>> /Applications/Qemu. But it doesn't work. It is linked against 
>> /opt/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib. Which is not a folder that anyone 
>> other than the superuser has access to. In fact nothing but that 
>> version of libSDL is in there so I assume it has been put in place by 
>> QemuX.
>>
>> So I am still in the position where I have a qemu installed that is 
>> only runnable by root. Surely this can't be as intended? Is there 
>> some way to persuade qemu to use SDL elsewhere? I guess my only 
>> solution may be to build qemu for myself against a properly installed 
>> SDL framework.
>>
>> -Thomas
>>
>> Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at 
>> mail.lycos.co.uk
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Qemu-devel mailing list
>> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
>
>
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