DSL Embedded :: No virtualisation anyway...
Hello DSLers,
my main reason for checkin out DSL is to use the web with an emulated machine (under an XP-Host). So first of all I must admit that my headline is not the whole truth- after numerous attempts I got only one way to reach my aim: Emulate a minimal Machine with VMWare, keep away from any kind of installation and always boot from CD. Not my original idea of virtualization (although it works...).
Second best is the embedded version of DSL. This seems to work fine- with the exception of the web access. It's not possible to establish a dial-up-connection to my provider via the broadband modem (no further networking, no router, just a simple modem on the ethernet wire). PppoeConf is not able to locate an access concetrator and quits. Manual attempt with pppoe -A fails. While this is no prob with the non-embedded DSL the malfunction may be due to Qemu. Next level of probs.
I'm not afraid of customizing myself- as long as I have an idea where to look at- so here the questions:
Is it possible to reach some kind of main menue of Qemu somehow?
Or the (Qemu-)command line at least?
Which is the config-file responsible for this and what changes have do be done?
While that way didn't help me out momentarily I thought I could try it with VMWare- and this turned out to be a real trial-version ;-)
Whatever I try to install DSL (frugal or debian-like) it always ends up with an impossible reboot. Either the installer promises to format the root partition and decides to quit after that or it seems to do his work but VMWare isn't able to boot after all. In some cases it complains about missing Bootstrap-Information in the MBR, mostly it just exits at the prompt.
Looks like cfdisk or mkfs does strange things to the virtual mbr (or completely fail to create it). And I have to ask again for a hint how to deal with this.
Hope somebody's got one...
Greets
breen
Well as far as QEMU is concerned... [CTRL] + [ALT] + [2] for the QEMU commandline. [CTRL] + [ALT] + [1] will get you back. I am having issues with installing DSL also, so I can't help you there.
The default setup of Qemu is like being in a sandbox.
The dialup and/or network config in DSL will not see your hardware.
The default for the network is a passthru using your Windows network.
So, try to establish your dialup in Windows first, Qemu should pass that connection through for DSL to use.
Well...
the joke is that I tried it with the Windows-Connection first but that was so slow that I thought it doesn't work and forgot about that attempt...
But you're right: In fact it does- sad thing is that Firefox (!) slows down Qemu to unusability here.
And Qemu's command line seems to be a pretty reduced one- I didn't find out up to now if there were good options to speed it up a little.
Anyway:
THX Roberts & Wraithan
your hints work
Greets
breen
original here.