On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:12:04 +0800 Brad Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 16/05/15 07:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > > When you accidentally bork a Qemu VM such that it won't boot to a > > virtual terminal, how do you bust back in. I doubt System Rescue CD > > would help, unless you can boot from the "cdrom" but somehow also > > access the existing "hard disk" borked VM image. > > > > So how do you bust back into a borked VM? > > With systemrescuecd. > qemu -hda my.img -cdrom /path/to/sysresccd.iso -boot d > > Easy peasy. > > Brad Thanks Brad, Your method both worked and was dead bang easy. Yesterday I performed this procedure about 10 times in 2 hours. Note that System Rescue CD requires -vga std in order to have anything resembling a decent image. And of course I used --enable-kvm so I wouldn't get gray hair waiting for it to boot. A big thank-you goes out to Peter Maloney for suggesting chroot. Although chroot technically isn't necessary, using it prevents a lot of stupid mistakes, so I use it every time and indeed have put it into my document. Thanks! SteveT Steve Litt May 2015 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
