gnome-boxes is broken? what about qemu?

[cornel panceac]

2012/4/20 Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyapc at fedoraproject.org>

> On 04/20/2012 10:46 AM, cornel panceac wrote:
> > One of the things that sounds interesting in the new fedora is
> gnome-boxes. However, every
> > attempt i've made to boot a live cd (tiny core linux) in gnome-boxes,
> failed (nothing in
> > journal). I've figured that i can try this also in qemu and so i
> discovered qemu is not
> > installed. After installing, attempts to run qemu failed. rpm -ql qemu
> shows (no installed
> > files). What is going on here? Is the qemu spec broken? Things have
> changed and i just
> > haven't found out about it? Or, is gnome-boxes working for you? Maybe
> qemu?
>
> In the last couple of days, I did a quick try:
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> what worked :
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> - I'm able to create a new 'box' and boot an F17 live iso image
> - Was able to delete the just created 'box'
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> What's not working for me:
>
> - Attempt to install the live-os to hard-disk fails w/ memory constraint
> (it sees only 500
> MB of it, while we need more than 720 MB. But I wasn't able to specify the
> memory anywhere
> though) .
>        - side note: I have plenty of memory on the host.
>
> - UI is often  unresponsive and wouldn't let me do anything. I try to go
> back, and go to
> the centralized view, it hangs and segfaulted once for me:
>
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> [ 3085.175514] gnome-boxes[4367]: segfault at 18 ip 000000365ac11d2b sp
> 00007ffffa175bf0
> error 4 in libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0.0.7[365ac00000+1a000]
> ------
>
>
> Once I get more time, will have to debug a little more & file a bug.
>
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> /kashyap
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> it seems that the answer is here:
https://live.gnome.org/Boxes/FAQ
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