Re: How to run qemu

[Donald R Laster Jr]

Ken,

  Lookup starting the gvncviewer tool after you start the virtual machine.  To 
get the display for the VMs I run gvncviewer and sometimes spicec.

  Don

Kenneth Adam Miller wrote on 9/7/24 4:58 PM:
> Hello,
>
> I've got qemu built and now I need to figure out how to run it with what I've 
> got. I have a vmlinux and a bzImage that I want to serve as the kernel that 
> QEMU runs with, and a single binary, let's just call it literally `program`, 
> that I want to issue a command to run once QEMU boots with the kernel.
>
> I tried to figure out how to run the QEMU on my own, and made it as far as this:
>
> ./qemu//bin/debug/native/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -display 
> vnc=:89 \
>          -netdev user,id=t0, -device rtl8139,netdev=t0,id=nic0 \
>          -netdev user,id=t1, -device pcnet,netdev=t1,id=nic1 \
>          -L ./qemu/pc-bios \
>          -boot c -kernel $HOME/workspace/kvmctf-6.1.74/bzImage/bzImage
>
> It runs, but there isn't any output to the screen to show it booting, and QEMU 
> runs the processor hard indefinitely. I need to be able to see standard output 
> and to be able to type into the console to enter the command, and I don't know 
> how to get it to or why it isn't showing that already. Also, once that is 
> working, I need a way to put `program` into the QEMU session so that it can be 
> run. Can someone help me? I think I need to make an img file that can boot but 
> I don't really know how to do that either.