This is what I used to create a guest OS on F7 x86_64, where guest OS is Win2k x86.: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO Works fine. Even connect to the internet from the win2k guest OS works. Only thing is that you have to include the --win2k-hack ( can't remember the exact syntax ) argument with qemu. I run the guest OS from the command-line as a non-root user, and never used any of the GUI. Regards, John On 23/08/07, John Lagrue <jlagrue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22/08/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > John Lagrue wrote: > > > Being quite keen on the concept of virtualisation, I find myself in a > > > bit of a quandary with F7. > > > > > > Being one who needs an uptodate kernel (my laptop power does funny > > > things with older ones) I can't run Xen because the kernels are too > > > old. Therefore I have QEMU/KVM or Vmware. > > > > > > Though the F7 documents talk lightly about QEMU being all part of the > > > Virtual Machine Manager, it isn't really; the resulting systems are > > > slow, refuse to boot off valid ISO images and have no configuration > > > options for networking. They don't even use the system CDROM until you > > > specifically add it after the virtual machine is built. So I use > > > qemu-kvm on the command line; not that the Fedora documents mention > > > that option - thank heaven for Google! > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora7VirtQuickStart is referenced > > from the docs site. > > > > libvirt and associated tools like virsh and virt-manager provide a > > neutral interface to all underlying VM technologies they support > > including Qemu, KVM and Xen. > > > > Rahul > > They *say* they do, but in actual fact they don't work very well at all. > > Try running virsh without Xen and all you get is "error: no valid > connection" when you try to do anything! > > virt-manager works after a fashion, but gives errors galore, crashes > and a generated guest won't even boot off a valid .ISO file that > qemu-kvm had no trouble with. Even after using qemu-kvm to install the > guest, virt-manager still won't work properly. The resulting guest > won't connect to the external network, the mouse is terribly sticky, > and the manager refuses to reconnect to a running guest. All-in-all, > it's a bit of bad news if you're not running Xen. > > JDL > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
