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[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Zachary. Have you tried booting anything virtually using Qemu under Linux? The last time I tried this by booting the test image I got no output, since Qemu was using SDL. I'm wondering if 
this is still the case if I were to say, try and boot an OpenBSD iso or something.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:48:41PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Thanks for that. I did forget to mention that I tried to have the
> cdrom as the second drive from an iso, but I didn't try booting from
> it. I actually wanted to see first how a windows/dos boot floppy would do,
> thus the floppy boot, but I might bite the bullet, and try booting a
> debian install iso directly. Also, my purpose in keeping wineyes
> running was to have access to the qemu monitor, though it sounds like
> you're saying that won't be accessible, which is too bad. 
> 
> I may try it again, though it probably won't be soon. Thanks also for
> your offer of answering additional questions, I may take you up on
> that if I need to when I try this again.
> 
> Greg
> 
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> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:25:26PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >     I'll be glad to show you how I run Qemu under Windows.  I warn you that 
> > Window-Eyes will be of no help whatsoever in reading the Qemu console 
> > window.  In fact, I suggest either creating a custom set file for it and 
> > using the Hotkeys option in the general menu to turn them off, or just 
> > unloading WE entirely.  That, of course, isn't very convenient.  If you turn 
> > off hotkeys in qemu alone you'll get response when alt+tab is pressed to get 
> > you out of that window.  Anyway, here's what I do:
> > To start with, I haven't installed Qemu into c:\program files.  I just did 
> > C:\qemu,, with the bios in the same place.  So to get that option I do -L ., 
> > which like under Unix stands for current directory.
> > A sample command line is:
> > qemu -serial com3 -boot d -net tap,ifname="tap" -net 
> > nic,model=rtl8139 -soundhw ens1370 -hda debian.img -cdrom debian.iso -L .
> > This is what I used to get Debian installed, with the Dectalk express 
> > connected to a USB-to-serial converter which acted as COM3 under Windows. 
> > It will work as ttyS0 under Linux, of course.
> > The boot d option is just to specify booting from the ISO image.  I 
> > personally haven't done much with floppy images or actual drives.
> > Once Qemu runs, you'll possibly get a Windows properties dialogue asking 
> > about whichever COM port you used.  Just hit enter to close it and you'll be 
> > in a Qemu console window.  Type the command to get speakup up and running, 
> > in the case of a Debian install it would be:
> > speakup speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0
> > From that point, assuming you unloaded WE or created a set file properly, 
> > things will just run as normal.  You can alt+tab out of the Qemu window at 
> > any time.
> > Hope this helps some.
> > Thanks,
> > Zack.
> > PS: If not, please feel free to ask me anything you'd like.
> > 
> > 
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