QEMU / Tiny instructions

QEMU with the Tiny linux image is meant to be used by students with Windows laptops that don't have enough computing resources to run VirtualBox / CentOS 6.5 on their laptops.

Replace "Step 2: Install the Virtual Machine on your PC" with these instructions:

• 1. Download qemu-449.zip using this link.

  2. Decompress the zip file into a folder

  3. Run qemu-win.bat by double-clicking on it.

  4. This should bring up the LILO boot loader. Press enter or just wait for a second or two and Linux will boo.

  5. Log in with root/root.

Modify "Step 3: Install the Virtual Machine on your PC" like the following:

• 1. Change the command line in 11. to the following:

  2. tar zxvf ~wahn/public/cs449/hello_dev_tiny.tar.gz ./

  3. cd hello_dev

1. Change the command line in 12. to the following (this generates a 32-bit binary since Tiny is a 32-bit machine):

2. make ARCH=i386

   1. In 15., this tiny version of linux will not automatically create /dev/hello for you, so you have to do it manually. Follow the below instructions:

   2. cat /sys/class/misc/hello/dev

   3. The above should output two numbers like 10:57. The 10 is the major number and the 57 is the minor number and these two numbers identify the device. Use these numbers to make a device file node for that device:

   4. mknod /dev/hello c 10 57

   5. In 17., you also have to now manually remove the /dev/hello file:

   6. rm /dev/hello