Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Qemu on OS X

[Karl Magdsick]

-hda indicates a HD image
-boot d  tells QEMU to boot off of the CDROM image

You will need to either specify a cdrom image or tell QEMU to boot from the HD.


-Karl


On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:53:31 +0530, Ashish Naik <address@hidden> wrote:
>  I downloaded and installed Qemu 0.6.0
>  
>  I have a WinXP Pro CD which is not a bootable one but copy of i386 folder.
> I created an image using dd command as described on site Emuscene.
>  
>  When I try to run qemu using command qemu -hda /Users/ashishn/winxppro.img 
> -boot d -m 128 an error is displayed as 
>  
>  Ata 0 master : QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (656 Mbytes)
>  ata0 slave:Unknown device
>  ata1 master :QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>  ata1 slave : Unknown Device
>  
>  CDROM boot failure code : 0003
>  Boot from CD-Rom failed
>  FATAL:Could not read the boot disk
>  
>  Emuscene article mentioned command as qemu -hda
> /Users/pete/qemuharddisk.img -cdrom /Users/pete/freedoslivecd.img -boot d -m
> 64 -enable-audio -user-net –localtime
>  
>  One thing I didn't understand is that why do I need to give –cdrom option
> along with –had!!!
>  
>  How do I resolve this?
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Ashish
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