Re: QEMU

[Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com>]

On 24/10/15 17:19, Reco wrote:
> I assume you meant https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU. So, for example:
>
> qemu -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot
> d -m 256
>
> translated to the language of current stable, means:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -hda debian.img -cdrom \
> debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso -boot d -m 256
>
>
>
>
> Basically, qemu-launcher merely run "qemu" with certain arguments,
> which ceased to work once Debian stopped providing "/usr/bin/qemu"
> executable. Which rendered the whole "qemu-launcher" unusable, and
> since the maintainer was not able to fix the package - it was
> rightfully removed from Jessie before the release.
> The bug is still open, and as far as I can tell, the problem of this
> package won't fix itself.
>
> Reco
Excellent thank you. I installed QEMU a couple of years back under 
Wheezy but havent done much with it so I was confused as to why things 
were no longer working since upgrading to Jessie.

One other question. Is it possible to run it on a non GUI host ie a 
Debian system without X installed but run guest operating systems which 
do require a GUI such as MS Windows or Haiku?

Andrew