[modular-debian] Re: Getting started with qemu
- From: Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modular-debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:21:38 -0500
Thanks Joel,
Two questions:
1) How do you like Gobo Linux so far?
2) In which command did you increase the VM's memory?
SteveT
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 18:54:05 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For those who want to experiment with another OS,
> virtualization may be much easier than actual
> hardware.
>
> Here is how I created a 50GB disk drive image. The raw format allows
> the image to be conventionally mounted *without* qemu.
>
> qemu-img create -f raw gobo.img 50G
>
> Now, to install from CDROM image to the drive image:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda gobo.img -cdrom
> GoboLinux-015-i686.iso -boot d
>
> Later, after install is finished and exited:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda gobo.img
>
> And when you want to read or write files using your native
> OS (and qemu is not running on this image.)
>
> mount -o loopback,offset=32256 gobo.img /mnt/gobo
>
> Easy, huh?
>
> The install was going fine, but aborted due to
> an out-of-memory condition. Okay, I'll need to allocate
> more of that.
>
> Stay tuned!!
>
> Joel
>
>
>
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