On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:59:47PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > These options are depending on CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM, CONFIG_DRM and > CONFIG_PCI. You must activate all of these options too.
All set in the guest kernel. > > > I think that you also need x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware installed > > > on the guest if you want to use "-vga vmware". > > > > I've tried that earlier, when things weren't working. Maybe it'll > > work this time. > > Good luck. "-vga vmware" started off OK in the text console today, but two major problems... 1) No mouse or text cursor once I fired up X. A Google search indicates that no-cursor-in-graphics-mode is a common problem with Vmware across all platforms. The QEMU "-show-cursor" option did not help. Otherwise X looked OK, and xrandr listed some ridiculously high resolutions, higher than my 1920x1080 monitor. 2) The mouse still worked, despite being invisible. I was able to blindly execute the mouse-click sequence to bring up the menu that included logoff. Once I returned to the text console, it was all red. Again, the keyboard still worked, and I was able to blindly shut down the guest. For now I'll stick with "-vga cirrus" or "-vga std". Looking at the Xorg logs, I noticed that in "-vga std" X was looking for the "fbdev" module, not finding it, and giving up. I emerged xf86-video-fbdev and X now works in "-vga std", although xrandr reports only 1024x768 is available. I intend to use it in linux mostly for distcc, so limited X Window size options aren't a problem. I didn't get much linux computing done today. I picked up a cheap external USB floppy drive at Canada Computers and transferred Galactic Civilizations v2.5 for OS/2 from my ancient relic 450 mhz Pentium 3 (128 megs of RAM) to my QEMU machine. The P3 has a built-in floppy drive; my other computers don't. The next challenge is to get OS/2 Warp 4 running in QEMU as per http://sites.mpc.com.br/ric/qemu/ -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
