Linux virtualization

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

HI
I've tried qemu, got the error cannot initialize sdl.
what is this?
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristoffer Gustafsson" <kg84 at dreamwld.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Linux virtualization


> Hi.
> I'm planning to use qemu now I think.
> Because I've read a lot of how to set it up, and you can do almost 
> everything in text mode. Specifiyng sound options, create a system 
> imageetc.
> What is the best solution? qemu or virtualbox?
> Also, do you know if there is a way of editing files in an iso-file?
> I'm planning to do an unattended xp install, and need to put my winnt.sif 
> file on the cd.
> /Kristoffer
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 9:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Linux virtualization
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>> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 12:08:11AM -0400, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote:
>>> you could try vboxgtk if you need a gui.
>>
>> Interesting, I'll take a look at it. Maybe I'll actually consider
>> running vbox on a gnu/linux host too in that case.
>>
>>>  how have you gotten sound forwarding to work with rdesktop?  I've never 
>>> managed that, I know there is an option for it, but never seen it work.
>>
>> Can't speak for rdesktop, I've only done rdp from within windows. I
>> mentioned a rdp client, because I assumed that rdesktop can do what
>> the windows rdp client can. If that's not the case as far as sound
>> goes, then that may not be an option.
>>
>>> all the apps should be fine you just have to setup networking.  as for 
>>> usb stuff I believe you'll have to tell vbox to pass them through to the 
>>> guest, which I've never done.
>>
>> So far all the usb devices I tried passing through to a vbox guest
>> came through. I did see reports now and again from users saying that
>> this or that usb device doesn't get passed through, but those are rare
>> it seems.
>>
>>> I believe it should all work in kvm if you prefer that.
>>
>> It should as far as I know, but I don't have new enough hardware to
>> run kvm on, so can't vouch for it.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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