Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Fabian Greffrath <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 11:03 -0500 schrieb John Snow:
>> If manually installing a bootable grub sounds gross, [...]
>
> Actually, this turns out not to be necessary at all. After all, GRUB
> Invaders is a multiboot-compliant kernel game and as such can be loaded
> directly by means of qemu's -kernel parameter. Thus, the "run" script
> would look like this:
>
> qemu-system-i386 -kernel invaders.exec
>
> Please find the kernel image attached. It is built from the Debian
> sources found here:
>
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/invaders.html
>
> Hope this helps. If there are any further questions, please do not
> hesitate to ask me.
>
> - Fabian
>
> PS: I am a bit shocked by the fact how complicated it is to install GRUB
> on a disk image. And, John, even if the approach you outlined worked, I
> guess GRUB will find its device.map puzzled when it will get rebooted
> from inside an image file instead of an actual hard-drive partition the
> next time.

Thanks!

Stefan