On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM, "Ashish Verma" <[email protected]>
wrote :

>
> > Is there a way to start  qemu such that i get a prompt to type in further
> > commands?
>
>
> When you boot the VM, press ctrl+alt+2 to get to the qemu prompt. At the
> (qemu) prompt type info and you will get all possible commands.


Wow !!! Thanks for that wonderful piece of info. I never knew that it would
be displayed right on the screen. Now that was good.

By the way how do i get back to Windows after pressing ctrl+alt+2.

Are you using a 64 bit version of Debian. Virtualbox gets installed by force
> on a 64bit OS, however, to get it working it requires 32 bit shared
> libraries, my fedora has similar 64 bit one's so I was not able to use
> Virtualbox and I could not locate all the packages required to facilitate
> the 32bit support. One thing I am going to try is, to install a rhel4 on a
> VM and the install vbox on that rhel4 and then copy over the libraries to
> my
> host system. That may work.


I am using 32 bit.

>
> Regards,
> Ashish


Thanks again ,
Abdullah
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