> > relevant .rpms from the QEMU website and following the Novell:Cool > > Solutions > > website 'How To install on SuSE 9.2'...but ran into SDL dependency > > conflicts > > when installing via YaST. > I have found that article. One wonders why Novell is pushing an > article that goes outside the official suse rpms, involves installing > a precompiled binary from a tar file etc etc. So much for the > integrity of your rpm database!
Hold it for a second. The article says "for some unknown reason are not on the SUSE 9.2 CDs". Plainly, the writer is somewhat clueless in this detail. > susegrep sdl-dev SDL-devel-1.2.7-41.i586.rpm dvd1 suse/i586 SDL-devel-1.2.7-41.x86_64.rpm dvd1 suse/x86_64 SDL-devel-32bit-9.2-200410061204.x86_64.rpm dvd1 suse/x86_64 As you see, the SDL-devel package is indeed not on the CDs, but it is on the DVD. And therefore online. (At this point I'll put the same record on again: compact disks are now spelt "D V D R O M". CDs are only of historic interest.) > I know that the kernel module (kqemu.ko) is not distributable without > permission A file of that name is not included in 9.2 (I can tell reliably from my index). If you modprobe this module after obtaining it from some source, you may crash your kernel, but won't destroy your SuSE installation (unless the crash takes the disk contents with it - very unlikely). Just don't load the module again. (This is true in general for any module and any distro.) If you compile the module yourself you should be fine in any case. Well it doesn't guarantee the module will work the way you hope it to, but that's a different matter. I have heard a few wow!s about the qemu in SuSE 10, which I will definitely try out as soon as I get the box media. Great for software testing I've heard. As for the talk, I'm afraid I was a bit disappointed, because it was a bit inefficient and I came away without answers to some of the key questions pertinent to any such emulator: how (in principle) does qemu work, how is the underlying host hardware handled, how the guest hardware, what's the compatibility with a range of common application software, peripheral support (USB, printer, typical doze-only fax/scanner/etc, sound!!!), file sharing between host and guest? (Feel free to criticise my presentations... ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
