Qemu NO KVM

upgrading SDL2 packages to new. removing virglrenderer.

update coming soon.

Apparently it fixed it, because it's still compiling the code to build the package with. I will update later.

It takes a lot of time to compile all the targets even here with a core i7, and additionally the resulting package is very huge. If you just want to build Android-x86 I think you don't need all the targets.

Qemu compiled and is now installed. I also just installed "aqemu". Though it uses qt5. I may go back to virt-manager. I need to download Android-x86 and test it. Wish me luck.

Originally Posted by chaz_bro1972 Yes, I have these SDL2 packages:

You are running Salix apparently. Next time, try the Salix user forum at https://forum.salixos.org/, or you could just install Slackware.

Actually it's a mix -- 60% Slackware/40% Salix. Since Salix is inactive, I am using more and more Slackware packages over time. Using slapt-get/slapt-src (with Slackware repositories).

Qemu did install. Then I followed this tutorial:
kvm_libvirt

Used both Virsh & Virt-manager. But I don't understand what the hell I'm doing.

Virt-manager does not allow me to use "localhost", instead it forces me to use "Qemu-KVM" which is not available to use. So I am confused.

Originally Posted by chaz_bro1972 Actually it's a mix -- 60% Slackware/40% Salix. Since Salix is inactive, I am using more and more Slackware packages over time. Using slapt-get/slapt-src (with Slackware repositories). Qemu did install. Then I followed this tutorial: kvm_libvirt Used both Virsh & Virt-manager. But I don't understand what the hell I'm doing. Virt-manager does not allow me to use "localhost", instead it forces me to use "Qemu-KVM" which is not available to use. So I am confused.

With a processor without kvm support this can't work I guess.

Just use Qemu commands or if you prefer a GUI install aqemu. There is no point using libvirt to manage just one VM anyway.

I already did install QT5 (a long time ago), so installing aqemu wasn't so hard. I mentioned I already got it earlier. But now I need to figure out how to use aqemu + install the new Android-x86 (iso) I already downloaded.

aqemu can be problematic with qemu-4.x since is hasn't received for many years. Some of qemu command line options have changed quite a bit. qemu has a simple built in GTK GUI.

The x86 and arm targets are built by defualt. For Android-x86 you do not need to compile with TARGETS=all

Even on a CPU with kvm, you can still leave '-enable-kvm' in the configure script. KVM is enabled/disabled when you run qemu. The 'qemu-kvm' is just a symlink to 'qemu-system-$ARCH, where $ARCH is either x86_64 or x86 depending on which Slackware you did the build.

Please refer to https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html and https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation

Quickstart (see also 'qemu-kvm --help'):

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 android.img 40G
$ qemu-kvm -m 4G -cpu host -smp 2 -hda android.img -cdrom /path/to/android-x86.iso \
	-boot order=dc -name "Android-x86" -soundhw ac97 -vga std -display gtk

Since you are trying to run android-x86 on a x86 CPU, 'cpu host' should work, otherwise 'qemu-kvm -cpu help' to find one. "-smp n' selects 'n' host CPUs so adjut as needed.