qemu klauncher error

[nwtpclnxs]

Hi,

I have an old laptop without a functioning cdrom. I am trying to install the latest pclinuxos using qemu within windows xp. The command I am using is qemu -m 350MB -L . -hda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -cdrom h:\*.iso -boot d. The h drive is my usb stick. It boots ok then I start getting the messages, low space on \home with the options to 'open file manager', 'do nothing' or 'configure error'. When I click 'do nothing' the kde desktop eventually loads but I get the following text on the desktop;

"Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply. the message bus security policy blocked the reply time out expired, or the network connection was broken.."

When I click on the panel icons including the start nothing happens. I have had success using qemu in this manner before.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[AS]

Hi,

I have an old laptop without a functioning cdrom. I am trying to install the latest pclinuxos using qemu within windows xp. The command I am using is qemu -m 350MB -L . -hda \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -cdrom h:\*.iso -boot d. The h drive is my usb stick. It boots ok then I start getting the messages, low space on \home with the options to 'open file manager', 'do nothing' or 'configure error'. When I click 'do nothing' the kde desktop eventually loads but I get the following text on the desktop;

"Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply. the message bus security policy blocked the reply time out expired, or the network connection was broken.."

When I click on the panel icons including the start nothing happens. I have had success using qemu in this manner before.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Just a guess, because I'm not using qemu, but if the option -m 350MB refer to available RAM inside qemu, this is probably too few RAM.
When liveCD.iso is booted, it need RAM space to decompress into the whole system, 350 Mb probably are not enough.

If your laptop support booting from USB, you can try that way, in this case need some utility like unetbootin to prepare the USB stick.

HTH, AS

[menotu]

I've just noticed there is a new release of QEMU (have no idea whether this will help resolve the problem though)

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTExNw

"QEMU 0.14 Improves Linux Virtualization

While it was not long ago that QEMU 0.13 was released, QEMU version 0.14 is now available with more improvements to this open-source processor emulator.

New in QEMU 0.14 is an emulation layer for the Intel ICH-9 AHCI controller, USB support for remote wake-ups, preparations for USB 2.0 support in QEMU, improved PCI Express support, new Intel HD Audio support, updated block drivers, new support for the SPICE protocol, support for the QXL device as a para-virtual graphics card, and improvements to QMP.

The full list of 0.14 changes can be found on the Wiki change-log. The latest version can also be downloaded at QEMU.org. Also expect to see QEMU-KVM 0.14 to be released very soon

[nwtpclnxs]

Hi,

Thanks for all you help in this matter. I increased the windows virtual memory to 1800mb then ran qemu with 1500MB. I successfully installed pclinuxos but had all kinds of problems trying to boot. I got the message waiting for file system and then it hangs then I get a call trace. I think I know what the problem is. The initrd file must be generated specific for each pc and something must be happening when I install using qemu. I am staill working on the problem. I hope this all makes sense. Thanks.