[Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-devel Digest, Vol 18, Issue 25

[Fred Hope]

Just out of curiosity, I'm running OS X as well, could I (or could you, 
if you wanted) use QEMU to emulate a PPC environment (on top of my 
native environment) so I could run Yellow Dog Linux and OS X 
concurrently?  Surely this would be much faster than Mandrake since 
with Mandrake we have to emulate x86.  I assume that if you're on PPC, 
it's a lot faster to "emulate" another PPC environment than to emulate 
an x86 environment?

On Sep 7, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote:

> 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.