Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Questions

["Jonathan Kalbfeld" <jonathan.kalbfeld@gmail.com>]

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Apologizing is a sign of weakness.  That's one of the rules on NCIS.


On 11/9/07, admin@mmri.us <admin@mmri.us> wrote:
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> I must apologize for subscribing to this list, but the Qemu users list
> is dead, sop this is my only option.
> I understand it is a development list, but I would appreciate some help.
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> I will make it concise.
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> 1) What is the best Distro to run Qemu on with the least hassles?
> FYI, I now run it on FC7, but it is a lot of trouble. kqemu refuses to
> work on FC7 on a v20z Sun dual cpu dual core rack server
> XEN just completely doesnt load even though  the Kernel is XEN, but at
> least qemu works with the following Caveat;
> "Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated"


1/ I absolutely love it on Solaris.  Mainly because I am a Solaris bigot.
Barring that it should run relatively uniformly on different Linuxi.


2)  Does an activated QEMU acceleration layer (missing above)  make a
> huge difference?


Yep.  Seems to be about 5x faster on my 1.6Ghz celeron laptop.


3) I have several operating systems successfully loaded in Qemu
> sessions, but networking is just not working. I worked through loads of
> FAQs from the net, but to no avail.



Try adding -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user

Use DHCP if you can.


4) Finally is there a preferred distro which is known to solve all the
> problems mentioned above?


Surely you can't be serious. :)  (Yes, I know, don't call you Shirley)



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