[gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote 2) What vncviewer or vncconnect parameters do I use to get to the qemu session? Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either localhost:0 or localhost:5900 should work. Thanks. That helped me to get

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote 2) What vncviewer or vncconnect parameters do I use to get to the qemu session? Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either localhost:0 or localhost:5900 should

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When booting off the install cd, you have 15 seconds to hit any key, or else

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 10:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When booting off the install cd,

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:26:36AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote Not all VNC-clients do this. Which do you use? In my case, it's tightvnc, which does not auto-resize. And in linux tightvnc, {F8} brings up the dialogue. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:17:41AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote That's correct if you want optimal performance in X.org. The best option is -vga vmware in conjunction with x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware. The last time I used qemu a few years ago, I ended up running wine from the guest as an X

[gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/07/13 17:50, Walter Dnes wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 10:50, Walter Dnes wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 14:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the binary flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the qemu and vmware flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu-kvm, but qemu-system-i386 works. Root can start

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 04:24, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the binary flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the qemu and vmware flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu-kvm,