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Hi,
I have followed this tutorial http://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_bones to build a simple C kernel and boot it successfully. But, how to convert the floppy image to CD image to use it with my real PC?
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I'm using kvm and qemu to run a windows virtual machine, but I'm trying to get internet on that machine. I've been reading about all this bridging and stuff that is done to do that, but I was wondering if there was a simpler way, to just forward my internet connection (since I'm connected on the host…
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I'm trying to run QEMU and use a simple file on the host system as the guest's hard drive. Here's what I attempted so far:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/felix/vm/archlinux.img bs=1MB count=8192
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB) copied, 86.6054 s, 94.6 MB/s
$ qemu -hda /home/felix/vm/archlinux…
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I've got an existing QEMU Virtual Server running on Fedora 11. Having troubles trying to find out how to change the location of where the Virtual Images are stored.
Can anybody provide any help please?
Thanks in advance!
I'm also new to Linux Server Administration - n00b in other words - so this…
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Related to this question How do I run qemu with 64bit processor on a 64bit machine?, I'm trying to run latest ubuntu 11.10 64bit distribution under Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit using qemu on a core2duo (64 bit cpu) machine, using following qemu parameters with no success.
Error under qemu:
"This kernel required…
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I tried to convert a VMDK image found in a OVA file to the QCOW2 format with the qemu-img command but it failed with the error message qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument
user@ubuntu:/tmp$ wget ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/databases/Pfam/vm/PfamWeb_20120124.ova
user@ubuntu:/tmp$…
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I have just created a VM in VMWare and installed a minimal install of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3.
# cat /etc/oracle-release
Oracle Linux Server release 6.3
It is running with the UEK kernel.
# uname -r
2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64
When I try and install VMWare Tools, I get the following error…
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I seem to be having some problem with suspend mode. Every time I try to suspend my laptop, it just locks the screen. Or maybe it successfully suspends just to resume only an instant after. What could cause such a behaviour?
I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 with the 3.2.0-25 kernel on a HP dv5-1178er…
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I am running a java application using this wrapper service yajsw. The problem it just stopped without any error in its logs file. So I was wondering will there be any system log file which will indicate the cause of it going down?
Partial of the log file.
Apr 6 00:12:20 localhost kernel: imklog…
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I have an external USB 2.0 drive WD My Book Mirror Edition, running in RAID 1 (mirroring) mode. A while ago the hard drive started to fail: it stops responding (directories are not listed returning an error after a big timeout). Sometimes it works for weeks before a failure, sometimes – few hours…
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Having these lines in /var/log/syslog
Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816036] ata4: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x1 sactive 0x1
Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816058] ata4: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x0
Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878…
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