Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Joe Menola <menola@sbcglobal.net>]

On Wed June 30 2004 7:50 pm, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:34:38PM -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> > I just installed Qemu last night. After reading the user doc and some
> > recent mailing list postings I've managed to create a raw drive image, 2
> > of them actually... one to install win98 in and one to hold my win95 cd
> > files for proof of upgrade eligibility.
> > I booted from a win98 start disk and I'll be damned if 98 isn't
> > installing as I type. This is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY cool. :)
> > Kinda slow though, which leads to my question... the user doc states that
> > a patch is available for 2.6 kernels for enabling qemu-fast support. The
> > doc states that it can be found "in the QEMU source archive".
> > What I can't seem to locate is, the QEMU source archive. Any one have a
> > link or sense of direction?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and thanks for such a nifty application.
> >
> > -jm
>
> Those patches only work when using linux 2.6 kernel as a guest OS. It won't
> help you run Windows 98 with qemu-fast. (On the plus side you can run
> qemu-fast w/o needing to recompile your host OS kernel :)

I see, well at least there's a plus side :). I plan to play with Linux distros 
also, so this will come in handy anyway.
If I go thru the modify config/compile scene will win98 run in qemu-fast mode?

>
> That said, *I think* you can get those patches here, but am not sure if
> these are the right ones:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2003-12/msg00020.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-01/msg00014.html
>
Looks like the right stuff to me, thanks a ton.

-jm