Re: [Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg?

[Robin Atwood]

On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007, Julian Seward wrote:
> (replying off list)
>
> So you have Solaris 10 (x86 ?) running on qemu-0.9 ?  Is it stable?
> Does it work?  I have it running on vmware-5.5.3 but would prefer to
> move to running it on qemu if possible; however I've had mixed
> results with qemu in the past and don't want to spend loads of time
> on failed attempts to get it to work.  Hence the question.

It was a great battle to install but now it is stable. Do the following 
things:
1. install from the DVD image
2. Use the text console install
3. At the end of the install, backup the image file *before* the first reboot
4. If during the first boot of the image, you get a segfault, restore  and try 
again until you get to a prompt. Ignore any service failures. (the filesystem 
seems prone corruption at the first boot.)
5. If you have problems caused by damaged files, re-install choosing 
the "Update" option: this will restore the damaged files.

After that, I was able to boot reliably into X. However, the filesystem seems 
very fragile if not shut down cleanly, so take regular backups!

HTH
-Robin.
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