[LB-XO-LiveCD] problems with .iso and Qemu

[wolfgang]

Hi,

you have a littel typo in your qemu commandline.
You must remove -hda because you do not have a
hard disc.  

Hint. The minimal system requirements to start the XO-LiveCD
without modifications (you may press F1 in the boot screen to read more)
is 512MB of RAM. Therefor I recommend you should increase -m 256
to -m 512. 

Let me know about the performance. My experience is that VirtualBox
on Windows will do a much better job.


regards 
              Wolfgang

PS. I will follow your wiki page to read about your success :)


On Saturday 08 November 2008, S Page wrote:
> Hi, you may know me as someone who edits wiki.laptop.org pages.  I
> thought I'd try the LiveCD.
>
> I downloaded the .iso and tried to use it with Qemu/kqemu.  It didn't
> work, but I'm no qemu expert. My notes are in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD , from them:
>
>  net start kqemu
>  qemu.exe -L . -m 256 -kernel-kqemu -soundhw es1370 -net user
>     -net nic,model=rtl8139 -hda -cdrom XO-LiveCD_081106.iso
                                               ^^^^


>
> fails with
>
>  ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (504 MBytes)
>  ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>  Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
>  FATAL: Not a bootable disk
>
> In "LiveCD 080902 is working!", s.boutayeb commented
>    The emulation with VirtualBox runs fine with 1 Gb memory, but some
> reason, I didnt managed to launch the image in Qemu
>
> So maybe this is to be expected.
>
> The XO-LiveCD release notes really should have more info about running
> in an emulator, even if only a link to a wiki page.  Writing such wiki
> pages is my life :-)
>
> Regards,
>  --
> =S Page
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