Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu problem (you might be my last resort)

[Jim C. Brown]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:10:16AM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:06:22PM +0100, Robin Pfeifer wrote:
> >> When I start qemu with the following command:
> >>
> >> qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -snapshot -m 256
> >>
> >> with any bootable CD in the drive, I only get a qemu window with the
> >> tile 'qemu stopped'. I cannot get into the monitor by pressing ctrl +
> >> alt + 2 or do anything else except ctrl + c in the terminal where I
> >> started qemu to cancel it.
> 

Out of curiosity, does it work if you use an iso image instead of /dev/cdrom?

If you "-boot a" from a floppy disk image, will that work or does it have the
same error? (You can download a FreeDOS boot disk if u don't have a way to
get a bootable floppy disk image).

> >>
> >> The command used to work perfectly with various versions of qemu, but
> >> now doesn't anymore. I've tried CVS versions after 0.6.1 stopped
> >> working, but to no avail.
> >>
> 

Does using older versions of qemu work? (Sorry if I'm asking questions that
you have already answered but I don't remember the original email).

> 
> >>
> >> At first only my user ID had the problem, and root worked - but then I
> >> tried the -m 350 parameter with root, too, (not thinking, at the time,
> >> that it could be the cause of the problem) and since then, root hasn't
> >> been able to use qemu anymore either.
> 
> >if u add a new user, can that user use qemu (provided you don't try 
> "-m 350") ?
> 
> No, I tried that yesterday, but a new user gets the same error. Root 
> used not to get it when the user already did, but after using -m 350 
> with root, it no longer worked for root either.
> 

This is the most confusing thing of all.

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