From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEyG-0005cn-EB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:31:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEyD-0005bs-SM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:31:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyEyD-0005bp-PT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:31:41 -0400 Received: from [64.233.166.178] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FyEyG-0004XN-L5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:31:44 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so2342340pyd for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:31:39 -0700 From: "Larry Brigman" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] No useful documentation. In-Reply-To: <1152134363.8295.94.camel@Agape-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1152133046.8295.85.camel@Agape-desktop> <1152133925.27974.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1152134363.8295.94.camel@Agape-desktop> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: daniel.carrera@zmsl.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 7/5/06, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-07 at 17:12 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > > A person who is in your position (frustrated for lack of documentation) > > is actually the most qualified person to write documentation. Feel free > > to ask any questions you have on this list. > > I would be happy to contribute a section. First I need to learn how qemu > works though. Just the basics. On another list someone told me that the > way qemu works is by first creating a blank image, then booting a CD > from the virtual machine and installing. > > At this point I know how to make a blank image, and I know how to boot a > CD: > > qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom > > Now I need to figure out how to put these together so that if this CD > can install an operating system, qemu will know to use the blank image I > made (call it c.img) as a hard drive for its virtual machine. > > Could someone tell me how to do that? With the blank image file do the following: qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda blank_disk_image_file the '-cdrom /dev/cdrom' option could also be -cdrom iso_image_file