qemu discuss - Oct 2007 - qemu installation question from a caveman

Hello all,

I?ll be very quick so as not to waste anyone?s time. Any answers to my ??s
should take into account that I?m pretty new to command line stuff, and utterly
ignorant to the inner workings of unix (I''ve been using Linus for about
2 years as an end user).

I?m running Open Solaris build 73 on AMD64 Opteron (Ultra20).

I downloaded the prepackaged builds of qemu (?QEMU CVS Code drop ? 2007/06/12?)
and kqemu (?KQEMU CVS Code drop ? 2007/05/20?).

First, where is the best place to extract to (and what argument[s] should I use)
Second, should I paste this code into the terminal verbatim:
[b]./configure ?prefix=/opt/qemu ?target-list=x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu
?disable-gcc-check[/b]
[b]
gmake install[/b]

In my initial attempt, I untarred the archive into /opt, changed to that
directory, and entered the first line of code verbatim. However I got this
error:

[b]ERROR: "gcc" either does not exist or does not work
[/b]

Any hand-holding would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated.

As an additional qemu question; how do you all think CAD software (SolidWorks,
Unigraphics, Catia) would run on a Windows XP64 guest under my Solaris 64 host?
Certainly I''m not expecting equivalent performance, but fair?

Thanks again for any help you all may provide!
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---- scott stanley <lepton00 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I?ll be very quick so as not to waste anyone?s time. Any answers to my ??s
should
> take into account that I?m pretty new to command line stuff, and utterly
ignorant to
> the inner workings of unix (I''ve been using Linus for about 2
years as an end user).
Well, you have the basics, so this shouldn''t be rocket science.
> I?m running Open Solaris build 73 on AMD64 Opteron (Ultra20).
>
> I downloaded the prepackaged builds of qemu (?QEMU CVS Code drop ?
2007/06/12?)
> and kqemu (?KQEMU CVS Code drop ? 2007/05/20?).
Those are not prepackaged builds, they are the source code drops.
>
> First, where is the best place to extract to (and what argument[s] should I
use)
something like /export/src/ or your home directory, or even /var/tmp if
you''re not planning
on keeping the code around.
> Second, should I paste this code into the terminal verbatim:
> ./configure ?prefix=/opt/qemu ?target-list=x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu
?disable-gcc-check
> gmake install
Yes
> In my initial attempt, I untarred the archive into /opt, changed to that
directory,
> and entered the first line of code verbatim. However I got this error:
Untarring it to /opt is a bad move.  if you are intending on installing it
there,
then you need to put the source somewhere else.
> ERROR: "gcc" either does not exist or does not work
Did you bother to read the "Building QEMU on Solaris" page on the
opensolaris.org
QEMU project page.  It tells you how your path is supposed to be configured.

see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/host/
> Any hand-holding would be TREMENDOUSLY appreciated.
Read all the pages at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu
> As an additional qemu question; how do you all think CAD software
(SolidWorks,
> Unigraphics, Catia) would run on a Windows XP64 guest under my Solaris 64
host?
It''s hard to tell.
> Certainly I''m not expecting equivalent performance, but fair?
With the KQEMU module, you should get fairly good performance, unless those
application are very graphics intensive, given that QEMU only supports VESA and
the CIrrus Logic GDM5446.

Ben

> > As an additional qemu question; how do you all
> think CAD software (SolidWorks, 
> > Unigraphics, Catia) would run on a Windows XP64
> guest under my Solaris 64 host? 
> 
> It''s hard to tell.
> 
> > Certainly I''m not expecting equivalent performance,
> but fair?
> 
> With the KQEMU module, you should get fairly good
> performance, unless those
> application are very graphics intensive, given that
> QEMU only supports VESA and
> the CIrrus Logic GDM5446.
Solidworks will not work at all well ... it''d fall down to OpenGL mode
and it is _VERY_ hardware specific ... even down to versions of drivers ... from
my own personal experience ...

I would be very surprised if any 3D CAD system written in windows will work well
in QEMU due to the graphical nature of the beast.

there are a few CAD packages out there that do run on Solaris, but of course
they are not compatible with existing works by other people, at least not in the
main ...

We have had some working, i''ve probably still got a couple sitting
around, but the Windows boys wouldn''t touch them because they already
had a working CAD system, and the new guys got all pushy because the old guys
coulnd''t train them.

Jon
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Ben, thank you very much for the assistance. I had already read the pages you
mentioned, but thought they didn''t apply since I was presuming the
tarball was precompiled. Therefore I will re-read the page and FOLLOW
INSTRUCTIONS. Thanks again for the help.
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Thanks for your input Jad. The graphics issue would be a severe obstacle, so on
to plan B. I appreciate your help.
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