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Offline qopit

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Launching an iso with QEMU?
« on: June 13, 2023, 01:58:02 PM »
I'm coming back to TinyCore (CorePure64) after a long hiatus, and just pulled the latest CorePure64-14.0.is from here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86_64/release/CorePure64-14.0.iso

I used to be able to kick off CorePure64 with a simple qemu -cdrom usage, but now, after pressing <Enter> at the boot: prompt, it loads for a few seconds... and then I get a blank screen I can't get out of.

Here's how I'm trying to launch the iso:

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qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -nic user -boot d -cdrom CorePure64-14.0.iso -nographic
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  Goal here is just to get Core spun up at console and explore what's new inside.

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2023, 03:48:52 PM »
This works, although with a gtk window popping up with a "graphical" console in it (that you can't paste into):

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qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -m 1024 -cdrom ./CorePure64-14.0.iso
At this point I'm thinking my memory must be failing me, and that I never did historically get Core working more-or-less-inline with shell invokation of qemu-system-x86_64.  :-\

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2023, 05:43:15 PM »
Hi qopit
... after pressing <Enter> at the boot: prompt, it loads for a few seconds... and then I get a blank screen I can't get out of. ...
I booted the ISO under TC14 x86_64 and got the same result as you.
I then tried it like this and eventually was presented with a console:
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qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G -nic user -boot d -cdrom CorePure64-14.0.iso

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2023, 12:31:03 AM »
Hi qopit
I played some more with this and got a little further.

Loading went a lot faster with KVM:
Install  kvm-6.1.2-tinycore64.tcz
For AMD
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sudo modprobe kvm-amdFor Intel
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sudo modprobe kvm-intel
Then:
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qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1G -nic user -boot d -cdrom CorePure64-14.0.iso -nographic -serial mon:stdioWhen the  boot  prompt appears enter:
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corepure64 console=ttyS0
The loading vmlinuz64 and loading corepure64 messages are displayed.
Then the following messages are displayed:
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Booting Core 14.0
Running Linux Kernel 6.1.2-tinycore64.
Checking boot options... Done.
Starting udev daemon for hotplug support... Done.
Scanning hard disk partitions to create /etc/fstab
Setting Language to C Done.
Possible swap partition(s) enabled.
Loading extensions... Done.
Setting keymap to us Done.
Setting hostname to box Done.
login[369]: root login on 'tty1'

After that hitting the  Enter  key just moves the cursor down
with no further prompts.

To get out of it, enter  ctrl-A + C
The  (qemu)  prompt will appear.
Press  q  and  Enter  to then quit qemu.

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2023, 02:34:42 AM »
"qemu -cdrom CorePure64-14.0.iso" still works for me, but this is with an older Qemu. Maybe they changed some defaults in newer versions.
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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2023, 08:45:55 AM »
Hi curaga
Can you copy/paste to and from the guest window?

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2023, 12:25:42 PM »
No, it's a graphical window (SDL or similar). It's never supported copypaste.
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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2023, 01:25:43 PM »
Rich - that is fantastic... thanks!  The `console=ttyS0` seems like the main trick so it can communicate.  I expect this may also help me connect to a libvirt-managed TinyCore VM with `virsh console`, and that was also on my list of things to figure out.

That said, I'm only close in the case where I want to try it.  Here's a gif showing where I get blocked:
https://s12.gifyu.com/images/SQbjT.gif

Some notes:

* This is under WSL on Win11 (please keep commentary/slagging to a minimum)  :)
*  no KVM wupport on WSL.  Will try on a debian host later tonight.
* I had all of "corepure64 console=ttyS0" in my clipbboard... but it curiously truncated the paste to "corepure64 cons"

Thanks again!!

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Re: Launching an iso with QEMU?
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2023, 05:43:00 PM »
Hi qopit
... * I had all of "corepure64 console=ttyS0" in my clipbboard... but it curiously truncated the paste to "corepure64 cons"
Now that is weird. The exact same thing was happening to me.