> To be honest, I can't recall what the -L option does and I didn't test > the audio, and 54 MB of RAM is a little lean, but it was easily enough > to boot. I've found that QEMU often errors out if the guest OS isn't > given a hard drive image, possibly from drive probe failure, but the > drive size does not need to be large if you'll be running live from CD > or floppy.
The need for a disk image might be fixed. > the virtual machine. I have found some guest OSes have trouble > determining the drive geometry under QEMU and you end up having to do > something like 'qemu -hdachs 8367,16,63 c.img' to get everything > working. They also seem to tweak the command line options from > version to version, so you may find other options that either change > or improve behavior under Windows. Plan 9 doesn't need -hdachs, for what it's worth. > Charon supports Gmail now, so I'm getting closer.... It does !?!? In full mode or in Gmail's "stupid web browser" mode? Russ
