OS/2 Warp 4 in QEMU on Linux
Well OS/2 does work in QEMU, though I guess you might say that I cheated a bit - I did this by doing the install in VMware Player and then using qemu-img to convert the file from a vmdk to a qcow....
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Loopback mountin’…a specific partition in a disk image file
Loopback mounts are cool as heck. You can take a file containing an image of a partition and mount on top of your regular filesystem. But what if you have a file containing an entire disk image rather than just an image of a...
Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
It just got easier to take Fedora for a quick spin: lwn.net: Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
Adding a -p option to touch
I've sometimes wished that the UNIX touch command had the same -p option as mkdir. With a little bit of scripting, it can: #!/bin/sh mkdir="/bin/mkdir" touch="/usr/bin/touch" for arg in $*; do if [ "$arg" = "-p" ]; then...
Non-functioning Alt key in qemu-0.8.2 displayed to X11.app
The Alt key on my US English keyboard going to OS X X11.app going to qemu-0.8.2 (using my own qemu-0.8.2 RHEL 4 package) on my RHEL 4 Linux box is not happening. Instead, this is spewed to the console. Warning: no scancode found...
RHEL4 qemu-0.8.2 package
The following RPMs were built by downloading the 0.8.0 source RPMs from rpmforge, making a few minor mods, and then rebuilding: Binary packages: qemu-0.8.2-1.1.el4.marc.i386.rpm qemu-debuginfo-0.8.2-1.1.el4.marc.i386.rpm Source...
links for 2006-12-17
Maximum RPM An old but popular source for info about RPM; dead tree version (tags: rpm linux howto redhat sysadmin book) UML Execution Modes Some of the only informative and concise info that I could find on the new SKAS0 support...