Re: [Qemu-devel] Running Linux on Mac OS X

[Elefterios Stamatogiannakis]

Steve Roy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I came upon Qemu as I was looking for a way to run Linux from Mac OS X. 
> I'm a Java developer and need to test my software on Linux. I spend most 
> of my time in Mac OS X and sometimes boots into Yellow Dog Linux for 
> testing, but it would be very useful if I could just boot Linux directly 
> without leaving Mac OS X.
>
> I downloaded and installed Qemu for Mac OS X. I was able to successfully 
> boot the linux.img from linux-test-xxx.tar.gz. Now I'm trying to move up 
> to something more complete, so following the screen shots seen on 
> <www.freeoszoo.org/screenshots.php> that show Mandrake 10 running on Mac 
> OS X, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2 from 
> <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php>, and am trying to run it.
>
> Just to make sure, I downloaded mandrake-10.0-x86.tar.bz2, which I 
> decompressed with the tar tool to get mandrake-10.0-x86.img. Then I did 
> this from a terminal window:
>
> qemu -hda mandrake-10.0-x86.img -boot c -m 128 -std-vga -user-net
>
> Which launches Linux and gets me to the login prompt. I type root, and 
> the <www.freeoszoo.org/download.php> download page says it should boot 
> directly into KDE, but all I get is the command line. How do I get a UI 
> going?
>
> Steve

 Try "startx" or "xinit"

 teris.