[Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Steve Roy]

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 <www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake 10 
running on Mac OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from 
<www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, 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 <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> 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

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Elefterios Stamatogiannakis]

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 
> <www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake 10 running on Mac 
> OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from 
> <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, 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 <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> 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.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[David E. Still]

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Or, for the Mandrake-themed login:

# mdkkdm

- Stealth "My other computer runs Mandrake 10.0" Dave :)
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Writer/Producer
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On Sep 7, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote:

>
>
> 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 <www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake 
>> 10 running on Mac OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from 
>> <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, 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 <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> 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.
>
>
>
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Or, for the Mandrake-themed login:


# mdkkdm


- Stealth "My other computer runs Mandrake 10.0" Dave :)

--

<bold>David E. Still</bold>

<smaller>Writer/Producer</smaller>

<bold><color><param>8080,0000,8080</param><bigger>TripleCat Productions</bigger></color></bold>

<color><param>8080,0000,8080</param>http://www.triplecatproductions.com</color>

On Sep 7, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote:


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Steve Roy wrote:


<excerpt>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 <<www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake
10 running on Mac OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from
<<www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, 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 <<www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> 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

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 Try "startx" or "xinit"


 teris.




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Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Steve Roy]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote:

>  Try "startx" or "xinit"

I tried and it starts to launch XFree86 but then it stops with a 
message about display 0:0 not set up. Looks like X is not running. I'm 
gonna have to boot in verbose mode and see if there's any clue in 
there.

Steve

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Personal homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/sroy>
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Steve Roy]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Steve Roy wrote:

> I tried and it starts to launch XFree86 but then it stops with a 
> message about display 0:0 not set up. Looks like X is not running. I'm 
> gonna have to boot in verbose mode and see if there's any clue in 
> there.

OK I checked and the only thing that fails during boot is the interface 
eth0 fails to initialize.

When I try startx or kde, XFree86 launches and then I get:

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" 
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

What's up with that doc? :)

Steve

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" 
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I don't know what is wrong, I just have a few ideas of where to look. 
First of all, what does X's log file say? It should be located at 
"/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Second, if kdm or xdm is starting X in the 
background, you might want to disable that and be sure that the X you 
are starting manually is the only X running on the system. This way, you 
should get the stuff that goes into the log file dumped into your 
console as well.

Maybe those X logs will say what's going wrong or at least where 
something odd happens.

- Bartosz

[Qemu-devel] Re: Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Christian Walther]

Steve Roy wrote:
> qemu -hda mandrake-10.0-x86.img -boot c -m 128 -std-vga -user-net

Is there a reason you're using -std-vga? Have you tried without it?
(Just a random thought - I didn't test it.)

  -Christian

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Steve Roy]

On Sep 8, 2004, at 4:07 AM, Christian Walther wrote:

> Is there a reason you're using -std-vga? Have you tried without it?

I tried -cirrus-vga at first, as instructed, but it wouldn't work. I 
would get an error on the command line, something about cirrus not 
being recognized or supported, I forget.

Steve

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[Qemu-devel] Re: Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Christian Walther]

Steve Roy wrote:

> I tried -cirrus-vga at first, as instructed, but it wouldn't work. I 
> would get an error on the command line, something about cirrus not being 
> recognized or supported, I forget.

It's -cirrusvga, not -cirrus-vga. But in recent versions (since 0.6.0, I 
guess), cirrus is the default anyway. What happens when you specify 
neither -cirrusvga nor -std-vga?

  -Christian

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Steve Roy]

On Sep 8, 2004, at 10:07 AM, Christian Walther wrote:

> It's -cirrusvga, not -cirrus-vga.

That would explain it!

> But in recent versions (since 0.6.0, I guess), cirrus is the default 
> anyway. What happens when you specify neither -cirrusvga nor -std-vga?

Hm I don't know I haven't tried.

Steve

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