So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not going well...
1) The following warning shows up in elog... > WARN: pretend > You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported > by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are > not). If you are intending to use this build with QEMU, realize you > will not receive any support if you have compiled your own SeaBIOS. > Virtual machines subtly fail based on changes in SeaBIOS. I don't see any USE flags about this. 2) I download a Gentoo install ISO, and create a 7 gig raw file sda.raw, and start qemu-kvm $ qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied failed to initialize KVM: Permission denied but... but... but... I am a member of group "kvm". 3) su to root and retry to start QEMU # qemu-kvm -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d qemu-system-x86_64: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-e1000.rom" VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900' So root has sufficient permission, but there's a problem with the BIOS, possibly related to item 1) above Note; I can run as regular user, either of the 2 commands... $ qemu-system-i386 -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d $ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda sda.raw -cdrom installx86.iso -boot d This doesn't run into permission problem 2), but still runs into the rom not found problem 3). 4) At least VNC is running. I emerged tigervnc and tried it $ vncviewer TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.2.0 (20130723) Built on Jul 23 2013 at 21:36:16 Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. X_ChangeGC: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) 0x0 ...and the dialog box is all blanks, presumably because of the missing fonts. I had QEMU working a few years ago, and I don't remember running into all these problems. What gives? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
