Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-17 Thread Brad Campbell
On 17/05/15 21:32, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:12:04 +0800 Brad Campbell 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 b

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:12:04 +0800 Brad Campbell 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

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread T.J. Duchene
> > I am impressed by the moral clarity and impassionate manner of the > subscribers on this list today: You mentioned system-rescuec-d and did not > cause a flame war. > > Arnt I'd like to think that we set differences aside when some needs help. ___

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread Peter Maloney
On 05/16/2015 01:49 PM, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 16/05/15 15:37, Peter Maloney wrote: >> On 05/16/2015 02:00 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:37:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: When you accidentally bork a Qemu VM such that it won't boot to a virtual terminal, how do

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread Brad Campbell
On 16/05/15 15:37, Peter Maloney wrote: On 05/16/2015 02:00 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:37:57PM -0400, 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, unle

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
I am impressed by the moral clarity and impassionate manner of the subscribers on this list today: You mentioned system-rescuec-d and did not cause a flame war. Arnt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread Brad Campbell
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

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-16 Thread Peter Maloney
On 05/16/2015 02:00 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:37:57PM -0400, 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"

Re: [Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:37:57PM -0400, 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"

[Dng] How to bust into a broken Qemu VM?

2015-05-15 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This isn't precisely about Devuan, but given the number of us testing Devuan in Qemu VMs, it would probably be very handy information. 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 y