qemu discuss - Oct 2007 - QEMU Does not see 2nd CD during RH Guest Installation

Hi Folks,

I am new to this list so I am not sure if this this problem has been 
discussed or not. I did search an archive I found at br.opensolaris.org 
yet did not immediately get any hits on this problem.

I installed the latest .8.2 binary QEMU package on my Solaris 10 laptop 
running on a Dell latitude D610.

I then proceeded on to install RH Linux as a Guest OS. Everything goes 
fine until I am asked to insert the 2nd cdrom of the Linux distro:

"Please insert Enterprise Linux disc 2 to continue"

At this point I needed to manually umount/eject the first RH cdrom, then 
I inserted and mounted the 2nd RH cdrom and I can see that it is mounted 
fine in another window yet when I hit "OK" button to resume the 
installation I get another pop-up dialog box that says:

Unable to access the cdrom.

At this point it goes into a loop of these two pop-up dialog boxes and 
as far as I can tell the only way out is to kill the entire QEMU session.

I actually have two Solaris 10 images I run, one with Volume Management 
enabled, the other w/o where I manually mount my cdroms. I tested this 
install on each image with the same results so it does not matter 
whether the cdrom is automounted or manually mounted, same results.

Needless to say up until this point I was VERY impressed with how fast I 
was able to get going with QEMU and I was very psyched at having this 
new virtual ability on my Solaris 10 laptop, Kudos to all you folks who 
have contributed! :-)

If anyone has any ideas about this cdrom problem I would greatly 
appreciate the assist for it is basically a show-stopper for me right now!

Thanks in advance!

Tom Briglia

Tom Briglia wrote:

Hi,

did you use the qemu command to eject the cdrom before changing it? (use 
ctrl-alt-f2 and then eject .. I think)

After you insert the 2nd CDROM you should also tell qemu to use it

regards

Bernd

> Hi Folks,
>
> I am new to this list so I am not sure if this this problem has been 
> discussed or not. I did search an archive I found at br.opensolaris.org 
> yet did not immediately get any hits on this problem.
>
> I installed the latest .8.2 binary QEMU package on my Solaris 10 laptop 
> running on a Dell latitude D610.
>
> I then proceeded on to install RH Linux as a Guest OS. Everything goes 
> fine until I am asked to insert the 2nd cdrom of the Linux distro:
>
> "Please insert Enterprise Linux disc 2 to continue"
>
> At this point I needed to manually umount/eject the first RH cdrom, then 
> I inserted and mounted the 2nd RH cdrom and I can see that it is mounted 
> fine in another window yet when I hit "OK" button to resume the 
> installation I get another pop-up dialog box that says:
>
> Unable to access the cdrom.
>
> At this point it goes into a loop of these two pop-up dialog boxes and 
> as far as I can tell the only way out is to kill the entire QEMU session.
>
> I actually have two Solaris 10 images I run, one with Volume Management 
> enabled, the other w/o where I manually mount my cdroms. I tested this 
> install on each image with the same results so it does not matter 
> whether the cdrom is automounted or manually mounted, same results.
>
> Needless to say up until this point I was VERY impressed with how fast I 
> was able to get going with QEMU and I was very psyched at having this 
> new virtual ability on my Solaris 10 laptop, Kudos to all you folks who 
> have contributed! :-)
>
> If anyone has any ideas about this cdrom problem I would greatly 
> appreciate the assist for it is basically a show-stopper for me right now!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Tom Briglia
> _______________________________________________
> qemu-discuss mailing list
> qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss
>
>   

-- 
Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html

M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar .
                        Fidel Castro

Thanks Bernd!

I''ll give this a try. What is the command to tell qemu to use it? Or if
anyone could be so kind to point me to some docs on stuff like this? The 
x86 package I downloaded only seems to have man3 pages and no man1 nor 
man8??

Thanks!

Regards,

Tom

Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Tom Briglia wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> did you use the qemu command to eject the cdrom before changing it? 
> (use ctrl-alt-f2 and then eject .. I think)
>
> After you insert the 2nd CDROM you should also tell qemu to use it
>
> regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am new to this list so I am not sure if this this problem has been 
>> discussed or not. I did search an archive I found at 
>> br.opensolaris.org yet did not immediately get any hits on this
problem.
>>
>> I installed the latest .8.2 binary QEMU package on my Solaris 10 
>> laptop running on a Dell latitude D610.
>>
>> I then proceeded on to install RH Linux as a Guest OS. Everything 
>> goes fine until I am asked to insert the 2nd cdrom of the Linux distro:
>>
>> "Please insert Enterprise Linux disc 2 to continue"
>>
>> At this point I needed to manually umount/eject the first RH cdrom, 
>> then I inserted and mounted the 2nd RH cdrom and I can see that it is 
>> mounted fine in another window yet when I hit "OK" button to
resume
>> the installation I get another pop-up dialog box that says:
>>
>> Unable to access the cdrom.
>>
>> At this point it goes into a loop of these two pop-up dialog boxes 
>> and as far as I can tell the only way out is to kill the entire QEMU 
>> session.
>>
>> I actually have two Solaris 10 images I run, one with Volume 
>> Management enabled, the other w/o where I manually mount my cdroms. I 
>> tested this install on each image with the same results so it does 
>> not matter whether the cdrom is automounted or manually mounted, same 
>> results.
>>
>> Needless to say up until this point I was VERY impressed with how 
>> fast I was able to get going with QEMU and I was very psyched at 
>> having this new virtual ability on my Solaris 10 laptop, Kudos to all 
>> you folks who have contributed! :-)
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas about this cdrom problem I would greatly 
>> appreciate the assist for it is basically a show-stopper for me right 
>> now!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Tom Briglia
>> _______________________________________________
>> qemu-discuss mailing list
>> qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss
>>
>>   
>
>
>

Thomas D. Briglia wrote:

Thomas,

 >What is the command to tell qemu to use it?

You can use the documentation on the qemu homepage:

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html

`eject [-f] device''
    Eject a removable media (use -f to force it). 
`change device filename''
    Change a removable media.

There''s also a Wiki and a User Forum:

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/user-doc.html

regards

Bernd
> Thanks Bernd!
>
> I''ll give this a try. What is the command to tell qemu to use it?
Or
> if anyone could be so kind to point me to some docs on stuff like 
> this? The x86 package I downloaded only seems to have man3 pages and 
> no man1 nor man8??
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
> Bernd Schemmer wrote:
>
>> Tom Briglia wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> did you use the qemu command to eject the cdrom before changing it? 
>> (use ctrl-alt-f2 and then eject .. I think)
>>
>> After you insert the 2nd CDROM you should also tell qemu to use it
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I am new to this list so I am not sure if this this problem has
been
>>> discussed or not. I did search an archive I found at 
>>> br.opensolaris.org yet did not immediately get any hits on this 
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> I installed the latest .8.2 binary QEMU package on my Solaris 10 
>>> laptop running on a Dell latitude D610.
>>>
>>> I then proceeded on to install RH Linux as a Guest OS. Everything 
>>> goes fine until I am asked to insert the 2nd cdrom of the Linux
distro:
>>>
>>> "Please insert Enterprise Linux disc 2 to continue"
>>>
>>> At this point I needed to manually umount/eject the first RH cdrom,
>>> then I inserted and mounted the 2nd RH cdrom and I can see that it 
>>> is mounted fine in another window yet when I hit "OK"
button to
>>> resume the installation I get another pop-up dialog box that says:
>>>
>>> Unable to access the cdrom.
>>>
>>> At this point it goes into a loop of these two pop-up dialog boxes 
>>> and as far as I can tell the only way out is to kill the entire
QEMU
>>> session.
>>>
>>> I actually have two Solaris 10 images I run, one with Volume 
>>> Management enabled, the other w/o where I manually mount my cdroms.
>>> I tested this install on each image with the same results so it
does
>>> not matter whether the cdrom is automounted or manually mounted, 
>>> same results.
>>>
>>> Needless to say up until this point I was VERY impressed with how 
>>> fast I was able to get going with QEMU and I was very psyched at 
>>> having this new virtual ability on my Solaris 10 laptop, Kudos to 
>>> all you folks who have contributed! :-)
>>>
>>> If anyone has any ideas about this cdrom problem I would greatly 
>>> appreciate the assist for it is basically a show-stopper for me 
>>> right now!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Tom Briglia
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> qemu-discuss mailing list
>>> qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html

M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar .
                        Fidel Castro

Thanks again for the pointer to the docs!

I found the FAQ which had the answers! Originally I just stumbled across 
the qemu binary package on the OpenSolaris site which like I said lacked 
anything but the man3 pages.

Well after figuring out the cdrom stuff the RH install went fine and all 
the networking & such worked right away.

My final task (which is why I started all of this in the first place) is 
to now see if I can get the Cisco VPN client working on the RH Guest OS 
for as many of us know Cisco does not make a Solaris x86 VPN client.

I found some post somewhere about a guy who ran Windoze as a guest OS 
under QEMU on Solaris x86 just to take advantage of the Cisco VPN
client port for windoze. I figured I''d try the same route yet use RH as
the guest OS instead for I think I''m alergic to windoze . . .

If I am heading down a dead end road though with a Solaris Host running 
a RH Guest and trying to do Cisco VPN . . . please someone tell me 
sooner than later . . ;-)

Thanks!

T.


Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Thomas D. Briglia wrote:
>
> Thomas,
>
>  >What is the command to tell qemu to use it?
>
> You can use the documentation on the qemu homepage:
>
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html
>
> `eject [-f] device''
>     Eject a removable media (use -f to force it). `change device 
> filename''
>     Change a removable media.
>
> There''s also a Wiki and a User Forum:
>
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/user-doc.html
>
> regards
>
> Bernd
>
>> Thanks Bernd!
>>
>> I''ll give this a try. What is the command to tell qemu to use
it? Or
>> if anyone could be so kind to point me to some docs on stuff like 
>> this? The x86 package I downloaded only seems to have man3 pages and 
>> no man1 nor man8??
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Bernd Schemmer wrote:
>>
>>> Tom Briglia wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> did you use the qemu command to eject the cdrom before changing it?
>>> (use ctrl-alt-f2 and then eject .. I think)
>>>
>>> After you insert the 2nd CDROM you should also tell qemu to use it
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Bernd
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am new to this list so I am not sure if this this problem has
>>>> been discussed or not. I did search an archive I found at 
>>>> br.opensolaris.org yet did not immediately get any hits on this
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> I installed the latest .8.2 binary QEMU package on my Solaris
10
>>>> laptop running on a Dell latitude D610.
>>>>
>>>> I then proceeded on to install RH Linux as a Guest OS.
Everything
>>>> goes fine until I am asked to insert the 2nd cdrom of the Linux
>>>> distro:
>>>>
>>>> "Please insert Enterprise Linux disc 2 to continue"
>>>>
>>>> At this point I needed to manually umount/eject the first RH
cdrom,
>>>> then I inserted and mounted the 2nd RH cdrom and I can see that
it
>>>> is mounted fine in another window yet when I hit "OK"
button to
>>>> resume the installation I get another pop-up dialog box that
says:
>>>>
>>>> Unable to access the cdrom.
>>>>
>>>> At this point it goes into a loop of these two pop-up dialog
boxes
>>>> and as far as I can tell the only way out is to kill the entire
>>>> QEMU session.
>>>>
>>>> I actually have two Solaris 10 images I run, one with Volume 
>>>> Management enabled, the other w/o where I manually mount my
cdroms.
>>>> I tested this install on each image with the same results so it
>>>> does not matter whether the cdrom is automounted or manually 
>>>> mounted, same results.
>>>>
>>>> Needless to say up until this point I was VERY impressed with
how
>>>> fast I was able to get going with QEMU and I was very psyched
at
>>>> having this new virtual ability on my Solaris 10 laptop, Kudos
to
>>>> all you folks who have contributed! :-)
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any ideas about this cdrom problem I would
greatly
>>>> appreciate the assist for it is basically a show-stopper for me
>>>> right now!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Tom Briglia
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> qemu-discuss mailing list
>>>> qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

> My final task (which is why I started all of this in
> the first place) is 
> to now see if I can get the Cisco VPN client working
> on the RH Guest OS 
> for as many of us know Cisco does not make a Solaris
> x86 VPN client.
I know that this is kinda off topic, but have you tried playing around with
''BrandZ'' and using a linux Zone ... i was amazingly surprised
to find that it ran some funny Linux databases with no trouble ... it might be
your best bet, you just have to export your display to the global zone if
it''s graphical :)

Jon
--
This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hey Jon,

Thanks for the pointer! I had never heard of BrandZ yet I will 
definitely check it out very soon, especially just to compare the 
difference between running the VPN on a Guest RH image, or running it 
with BrandZ!

Thanks!

Tom


Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>My final task (which is why I started all of this in
>>the first place) is 
>>to now see if I can get the Cisco VPN client working
>>on the RH Guest OS 
>>for as many of us know Cisco does not make a Solaris
>>x86 VPN client.
>>    
>>
>
>I know that this is kinda off topic, but have you tried playing around with
''BrandZ'' and using a linux Zone ... i was amazingly surprised
to find that it ran some funny Linux databases with no trouble ... it might be
your best bet, you just have to export your display to the global zone if
it''s graphical :)
>
>Jon
>--
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