Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense deltah i386 2.2 running with QEMU 0.10.5

[Sam Geeraerts]

Andreas Salwasser schreef:
> hello, I've got some problems running the live cd with QEMU.
>
> I use the following to start the VM:
> qemu -kernel-kqemu -localtime -m 256 -hda QEMU/gNewSense.img -cdrom
> ISOS/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-i386-2.2.iso -boot d
>
> it starts, but really slow (compared to VirtualBox), after it runs the
> local boot scripts it shows the following message:
> Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode
> Your screen and graphics card could not be detected correctly. To use
> higher resolutions, visual effects or multiple screens, you have to
> configure the display yourself.
>
> After that message, I click 'Continue'.
>
> Low graphics isn't the really problem, but it seems that after this, it
> doesn't go any further, just like it freezes.
>
> The system on which I run this is Slackware 12.2, I have QEMU 0.10.5
> with kqemu-1.4.0pre1 installed, build with the scripts from
> slackbuilds.org.
>
> I've also installed Debian over netinstal with QEMU, works just fine.
>
> I have also Debian and gNewSense with VirtualBox running, but want to
> switch to QEMU, because of the easier setup of networking.
>
> Anyone have experienced similar or got some advice for me?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Andreas

I tried it myself with:
qemu -kernel-qemu -localtime -m 192 -cdrom gnewsense.iso -boot d

I can confirm that it's slow, and it failed to start X for me. From 
start to X fail is about 8 minutes. X fails because it can't get the 
EDID. I don't get a login prompt after that. This is on a 3 GHz laptop 
with 512 MiB RAM.

I also tried it with and Ubuntu 8.04.1 ISO for comparison and it's 
equally slow, but it does start the desktop (no low graphics message), 
which seems to hang right after it has loaded.