[Qemu-devel] Hardware virtualization with QEMU

[Lv <Liebrecht@grossmann-venter.com>]

 From the slackbook WIKI;

"http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:qemu"

I quote below which relates to my questions:


My questions are as follows:
1) I know -hdc and -cdrom cannot be called at the same time, but i have 
no luck getting an image to be mounted with -hdb or -hdd. The same image 
I can successfully mount with -cdrom cannot be mounted with either -hdb 
or -hdd, What's up there. I could not figure out from the manuals if 
these should just be dd'ed images a directory or iso?

2) Are floppy images restricted to exactly 1.44MB created with dd? I 
cannot mount anything with the floppy switches either which is probably 
a size constraint I dont meet.

3) Since USB is seemingly working, what would the command be to activate 
the usb driver ?
-usb Intel SB82371    or -usb SB82371  ?

4) What is the attainable USB speed? Full USB-1 ?

5) Are the serial and parallel ports running at native speed without 
delays?




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Emulated hardware and supported Guest OS-es

The QEMU Virtual Machine emulates a set of hardware components that is 
independent of the real hardware on which it is running. Since Slackware 
runs on x86 architecture, I will limit myself to a list of emulated 
hardware available to Slack (other emulated architectures may have other 
hardware peripherals available to the Guest OS).

     *
       IDE-Controller supporting up to 4 drives (the drives are disk 
images on the host computer
     *
       IDE CDROM device (in the form of a CD ISO image, or a real CDROM 
device)
     *
       Floppy disk controller supporting up to 2 drives (floppy disk images)
     *
       Graphics card (either a Cirrus Logic GD5446 PCI, or VGA-VESA)
     *
       PS/2 Mouse
     *
       Ethernet network card (Realtek RTL8139 PCI or NE2000 PCI)
     *
       A serial port (COM 1)
     *
       A parallel port (LPT 1)
     *
       Soundcard (Soundblaster 16 and/or ES1370)
     *
       A USB-UHCI host controller (the Intel SB82371)

The list of Operating Systems that run inside QEMU is quite long. Here 
is an unofficial list of supported Guest OS-es. I have run various 
Linuxes (for x68 and x86_64) and Windows 98/2000/XP inside QEMU.

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