From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bfq6w-0002iQ-Ty for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:11:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bfq6v-0002gk-Az for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:11:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bfq6v-0002gh-83 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:11:33 -0400 Received: from [66.163.168.180] (helo=smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bfq4l-0006Um-CI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:09:19 -0400 From: Joe Menola Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:09:17 -0500 References: <200406301934.39253.menola@sbcglobal.net> <20040701005009.GA28651@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> In-Reply-To: <20040701005009.GA28651@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406302009.17188.menola@sbcglobal.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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