I have tried that before, will not go their again, however I was able to
accomplish this with Gentoo.
So qemu in Gentoo is OK.
I think XP was a bad choice for first try. Try any Linux .
I dont have virt-manager yet. I wanted the simplest possible setup… qemunat the command line.
Making a shortcut link depends on the program having an icon.
It seems to be working fine in Gentoo, for no more than I know about qemu.
Do you how to set up a shared folder from host to guest?
I dont know. Have not tried yet.
I suspect the ‘shared folder’ concept does not apply to qemu.
I have read that qemu can access any host hardware… disks, network cards, usb ports, …
but I have yet to work out how.
I need it… I have to access my local net with printers and other desktop on it.
I imagine what you do is start qemu with some different parameter options. You can , for example, give it more or less ram, simply by changing -m 5G.
So you are giving up?
QEMU predates the notion of a hypervisor… QEMU was designed to emulate foreign instruction sets…
Both IBM and Sun had “hypervisor” tech well before VMware (mid/late 1990’s or early 2000’s)… The first versions of VMware workstation didn’t need hypervisor settings in a PC BIOS 'cause there was no such thing… KVM is just another hypervisor that can take advantage of x86_64 virtualization… some platforms (e.g. Sun T-Series) run the HyperVisor in firmware on the hardware…
IBM were into emulation way back into the 1970’s at least. They used it make old products work in new computers under a new OS. In the long run I think it is a bad approach… encourages customers to cling to old software. But who is to criticize IBM… they are survivors because they keep customers happy.
completely Offftopic
These dayz I drive Debian now that’s old softwarz
Yes, and in my case, so old that I can only run it in an emulator.
No!!! But from my point of view qemu has some serious faults, compared to Vbox.
The “drew” guy who called Vbox a bunch of “dogshit” and “Chris Titus” obviously do
not expect too much when using a VM, or I am so stupid, that I cannot comprehend qemu.
I will play with it for awhile longer, my friend, but only on the Linux side.
They are happy to drive qemu from the command line
You are wanting to use virt-manager and expect it to be like Vbox. It isnt like that. Virtualising is only one of the things qemu is used for… its almost a side-effect… dont expect a polished VM, its just a tool.
I am going to keep investigating until I can access host files and networks to my satisfaction. That to me is the one big hurdle to using any VM… they are all too isolated… I want it to run just like a hard install. It may be difficult .
That looks fine. Yes it is different but not any more difficult.
Did you do it from command line or with virt-manager?
Can you run firefox? Will it network?
Did you notice you get the full screen VM window straight away? No guest additions to get the full resolution.
Dont resize the window by pulling the sides or corners… if you do that you get two cursor pionters ??? There may be a fix for that, but I have not found it yet.
With virt-manager, I get enough command line use with Gentoo. If I keep using qemu I will
have to find a bigger drive for Gentoo. I see no way to build VM’s with qemu, on another
drive, like I can with Vbox.
Haven’t really played with it much, been with contractors today getting bids on new shingles
for my shop roof, getting too old for that kind of work.
Follow my method in the original post. I have the vm area on a separate partition.
It might not be possible with virt-manager… should be, that is basic.
shingles
You have a slate roof?
OH no, 3 tab asphalt shingles, not many slate roofs in this area.
Yeah, I saw that, I just wanted the modern way to use qemu.
OH no, 3 tab asphalt shingles, not many slate roofs in this area.
Yeah, I saw that, I just wanted the modern way to use qemu. Will play wiith qemu
a little later on tonight.
Just exactly which distro are you wanting to work with in qemu, or does it matter?
I think there is another gui apart from virt-manager. Will check.
Doesnt matter at present. I used Debian because I wanted to try and get back Debian in that PC after the graphics card disaster.
Might eventually use it for BSD… either Freebsd or Ghostbsd. I miss BSD.