[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 04:04:26 EST 2005


`qemu -hda <disk_image> -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d`

You can create a disk image with qemu-img.


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:48:16 -0500, Ennogaddado Vito 
> I've been toying with it, myself...  I can't get it to boot anything on
> a floppy or in the CD drive.  I've been using variations on this command:
> 
> qemu -boot a /dev/fd0
> 
> or
> 
> qemu -boot d /dev/cdrom
> 
> I'd like to try installing OS2 and Solaris, if I could, and perhaps BeOS
> too...  anybody have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong?

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