[Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Celso Pinto]

Hi everyone,

I noticed on the website that Solaris is a supported guest OS so I took a
shot at trying to install them without much luck.

The installed keeps panic-ing stating it cannot mount root (screenshot:
http://yimports.com/~cpinto/downloads/qemu/Screenshot-1.png).

I used the command:
% qemu -hda <img created for hda> -cdrom <iso for solaris install> -d
int,pcall -boot d <img created for hda>

but only an empty log file was created on /tmp. Is there any alternative
to provide more information about this issue?

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Celso


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Karel Gardas]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Celso Pinto wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I noticed on the website that Solaris is a supported guest OS so I took a
> shot at trying to install them without much luck.
>
> The installed keeps panic-ing stating it cannot mount root (screenshot:
> http://yimports.com/~cpinto/downloads/qemu/Screenshot-1.png).
>
> I used the command:
> % qemu -hda <img created for hda> -cdrom <iso for solaris install> -d
> int,pcall -boot d <img created for hda>
>
> but only an empty log file was created on /tmp. Is there any alternative
> to provide more information about this issue?
>
> Any thoughts?

Have you tried -isa option? IIRC this helped, but I'm not sure, certainly
if you grep the archive for solaris, you will find the right workaround.

Cheers,
Karel
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Ben Taylor]

"Celso Pinto" <cpinto@yimports.com>
> 
> I noticed on the website that Solaris is a supported guest OS so I took a
> shot at trying to install them without much luck.
> 
> The installed keeps panic-ing stating it cannot mount root (screenshot:
> http://yimports.com/~cpinto/downloads/qemu/Screenshot-1.png).

the failure of not mounting the root file system maybe 
a symptom of a failed iso copy.  However, it's entirely
possible that qemu is choking on the dma commands that
Solaris is sending down to the virtual driver, and
causing the problem.  There are some patches that Juergen
Keil posted in the archive which can probably help that
particular issue.  

> 
> I used the command:
> % qemu -hda <img created for hda> -cdrom <iso for solaris install> -d
> int,pcall -boot d <img created for hda>

I looked at my start line and it looks like you have
both -hda solaris10, and solaris10 at the end of your
command line.  How about removing the trailing solaris10
and see how that goes.   I think you probably want to
add -localtime to the start command as well. Yes, you'll
probably see some RTC errors when Solaris starts, 
but I've gotten Solaris 10 to load with the CVS code
plus Solaris patches.

> but only an empty log file was created on /tmp. Is there any alternative
> to provide more information about this issue?


stop qemu, add the log entries from the monitor, and
continue?

Ben

Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Celso Pinto]

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Hi,

thanks a lot for your insight. I just pulled the source from CVS and
applied the mentioned patch but had no luck (tried running qemu both
with and without -isa). It keeps bumping on the "cannot mount root"
error and reboot automatically again and again.

Looking at the message output, it seems that there are problems when
mounting the root using the CDROM. I'll try to download the images again
and see how that goes.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers,
Celso


On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:45 -0400, Ben Taylor wrote:
> "Celso Pinto" <cpinto@yimports.com>
> > 
> > I noticed on the website that Solaris is a supported guest OS so I took a
> > shot at trying to install them without much luck.
> > 
> > The installed keeps panic-ing stating it cannot mount root (screenshot:
> > http://yimports.com/~cpinto/downloads/qemu/Screenshot-1.png).
> 
> the failure of not mounting the root file system maybe 
> a symptom of a failed iso copy.  However, it's entirely
> possible that qemu is choking on the dma commands that
> Solaris is sending down to the virtual driver, and
> causing the problem.  There are some patches that Juergen
> Keil posted in the archive which can probably help that
> particular issue.  
> 
> > 
> > I used the command:
> > % qemu -hda <img created for hda> -cdrom <iso for solaris install> -d
> > int,pcall -boot d <img created for hda>
> 
> I looked at my start line and it looks like you have
> both -hda solaris10, and solaris10 at the end of your
> command line.  How about removing the trailing solaris10
> and see how that goes.   I think you probably want to
> add -localtime to the start command as well. Yes, you'll
> probably see some RTC errors when Solaris starts, 
> but I've gotten Solaris 10 to load with the CVS code
> plus Solaris patches.
> 
> > but only an empty log file was created on /tmp. Is there any alternative
> > to provide more information about this issue?
> 
> 
> stop qemu, add the log entries from the monitor, and
> continue?
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Juergen Keil]

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> I just pulled the source from CVS and applied the mentioned patch

Which patch?


> but had no luck (tried running qemu both
> with and without -isa). It keeps bumping on the "cannot mount root"
> error and reboot automatically again and again.

Are you trying to install Solaris 9 x86, or Solaris 10 x86?

Looking at your screenshot image, it seems you're trying to install Solaris 9
x86.

I do see some slight differences between Solaris 9 and 10 x86, and qemu-cvs:

Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" crashes with pci-ide timeout and abort 
error messages (with exactly the error messages that you've got).

Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-isa" works.

Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" + attached ide.c patch works, and uses
ide hdd dma transfers. 


Solaris 10 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" works, but complains that the ide controller
is not busmaster dma capable, so ide hdd pio transfers are used instead of
dma transfers.

Solaris 10 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" + attached ide.c patch detects a pci busmaster
capable ide controller and uses ide dma transfers.


(Note tested by me, but reported to work:)  Solaris "next" x86 & qemu cvs
"-pci" + attached ide.c patch is able to use dma transfers for both the
ide hdd and the ide atapi cdrom.

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Index: hw/ide.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/qemu/qemu/hw/ide.c,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -B -r1.32 ide.c
--- hw/ide.c	2 Dec 2004 20:20:21 -0000	1.32
+++ hw/ide.c	22 Apr 2005 08:11:08 -0000
@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@
 } PCIIDEState;
 
 static void ide_dma_start(IDEState *s, IDEDMAFunc *dma_cb);
+static int ide_atapi_cmd_read_dma_cb(IDEState *s, 
+                                     target_phys_addr_t phys_addr, 
+                                     int transfer_size1);
 
 static void padstr(char *str, const char *src, int len)
 {
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@
     put_le16(p + 49, 1 << 9 | 1 << 8); /* DMA and LBA supported */
     put_le16(p + 51, 0x200); /* PIO transfer cycle */
     put_le16(p + 52, 0x200); /* DMA transfer cycle */
-    put_le16(p + 53, 1 | 1 << 2); /* words 54-58,88 are valid */
+    put_le16(p + 53, 1 | 1 << 1 | 1 << 2); /* words 54-58,64-70,88 are valid */
     put_le16(p + 54, s->cylinders);
     put_le16(p + 55, s->heads);
     put_le16(p + 56, s->sectors);
@@ -430,6 +433,8 @@
         put_le16(p + 59, 0x100 | s->mult_sectors);
     put_le16(p + 60, s->nb_sectors);
     put_le16(p + 61, s->nb_sectors >> 16);
+    put_le16(p + 63, 0x07 | 0x4 << 8); /* Multiword DMA supported/selected */
+    put_le16(p + 64, 0x03); /* PIO modes 3,4 supported */
     put_le16(p + 80, (1 << 1) | (1 << 2));
     put_le16(p + 82, (1 << 14));
     put_le16(p + 83, (1 << 14));
@@ -437,8 +442,8 @@
     put_le16(p + 85, (1 << 14));
     put_le16(p + 86, 0);
     put_le16(p + 87, (1 << 14));
-    put_le16(p + 88, 0x1f | (1 << 13));
-    put_le16(p + 93, 1 | (1 << 14) | 0x2000 | 0x4000);
+    put_le16(p + 88, 0x3f /*| 0x20 << 8*/); /* UltraDMA modes supported/selected */
+    put_le16(p + 93, 1 | (1 << 1) | (1 << 3) | (1 << 13) | (1 << 14));
 }
 
 static void ide_atapi_identify(IDEState *s)
@@ -458,10 +463,10 @@
     padstr((uint8_t *)(p + 23), QEMU_VERSION, 8); /* firmware version */
     padstr((uint8_t *)(p + 27), "QEMU CD-ROM", 40); /* model */
     put_le16(p + 48, 1); /* dword I/O (XXX: should not be set on CDROM) */
-    put_le16(p + 49, 1 << 9); /* LBA supported, no DMA */
-    put_le16(p + 53, 3); /* words 64-70, 54-58 valid */
-    put_le16(p + 63, 0x103); /* DMA modes XXX: may be incorrect */
-    put_le16(p + 64, 1); /* PIO modes */
+    put_le16(p + 49, 1 << 8 | 1 << 9); /* DMA and LBA supported */
+    put_le16(p + 53, 7); /* words 64-70, 54-58, 88 valid */
+    put_le16(p + 63, 0x07 | 0x4 << 8); /* Multiword DMA supported/selected */
+    put_le16(p + 64, 0x03); /* PIO modes 3,4 supported */
     put_le16(p + 65, 0xb4); /* minimum DMA multiword tx cycle time */
     put_le16(p + 66, 0xb4); /* recommended DMA multiword tx cycle time */
     put_le16(p + 67, 0x12c); /* minimum PIO cycle time without flow control */
@@ -471,6 +476,7 @@
     put_le16(p + 72, 30); /* in ns */
 
     put_le16(p + 80, 0x1e); /* support up to ATA/ATAPI-4 */
+    put_le16(p + 88, 0x3f /*| 0x20 << 8*/); /* UltraDMA modes supported/selected */
 }
 
 static void ide_set_signature(IDEState *s)
@@ -500,6 +506,10 @@
 static inline void ide_set_irq(IDEState *s)
 {
     if (!(s->cmd & IDE_CMD_DISABLE_IRQ)) {
+	BMDMAState *bm = s->bmdma;
+	if(bm)
+	    bm->status |= BM_STATUS_INT;
+
 #ifdef TARGET_PPC
         if (s->openpic) 
             openpic_set_irq(s->openpic, s->irq, 1);
@@ -890,8 +900,13 @@
     s->elementary_transfer_size = 0;
     s->io_buffer_index = 0;
 
-    s->status = READY_STAT;
-    ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end(s);
+    if (s->atapi_dma) {
+	s->status = READY_STAT | DRQ_STAT;
+	ide_dma_start(s, ide_atapi_cmd_read_dma_cb);
+    } else {
+	s->status = READY_STAT;
+	ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end(s);
+    }
 }
 
 /* start a CD-CDROM read command */
@@ -919,14 +934,18 @@
     while (transfer_size > 0) {
         if (s->packet_transfer_size <= 0)
             break;
-        len = s->cd_sector_size - s->io_buffer_index;
-        if (len <= 0) {
-            /* transfert next data */
-            cd_read_sector(s->bs, s->lba, s->io_buffer, s->cd_sector_size);
-            s->lba++;
-            s->io_buffer_index = 0;
-            len = s->cd_sector_size;
-        }
+	if (s->lba == -1)
+	    len = s->packet_transfer_size;
+	else {
+	    len = s->cd_sector_size - s->io_buffer_index;
+	    if (len <= 0) {
+		/* transfert next data */
+		cd_read_sector(s->bs, s->lba, s->io_buffer, s->cd_sector_size);
+		s->lba++;
+		s->io_buffer_index = 0;
+		len = s->cd_sector_size;
+	    }
+	}
         if (len > transfer_size)
             len = transfer_size;
         cpu_physical_memory_write(phys_addr, 
@@ -2191,6 +2210,12 @@
     ide_init2(&d->ide_if[2], 16, hd_table[2], hd_table[3]);
 }
 
+
+// PCI 0x04: command(word), 0x06(word): status
+#define PCI_COMMAND_IOACCESS                0x0001
+#define PCI_COMMAND_MEMACCESS               0x0002
+#define PCI_COMMAND_BUSMASTER               0x0004
+
 /* hd_table must contain 4 block drivers */
 /* NOTE: for the PIIX3, the IRQs and IOports are hardcoded */
 void pci_piix3_ide_init(PCIBus *bus, BlockDriverState **hd_table)
@@ -2208,6 +2233,9 @@
     pci_conf[0x01] = 0x80;
     pci_conf[0x02] = 0x10;
     pci_conf[0x03] = 0x70;
+    pci_conf[0x04] = PCI_COMMAND_IOACCESS | PCI_COMMAND_MEMACCESS \
+       | PCI_COMMAND_BUSMASTER;
+    pci_conf[0x09] = 0x8a; // programming interface = PCI_IDE bus master is supported
     pci_conf[0x0a] = 0x01; // class_sub = PCI_IDE
     pci_conf[0x0b] = 0x01; // class_base = PCI_mass_storage
     pci_conf[0x0e] = 0x00; // header_type

Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[emuls]

Hello,

I install a Solaris 10 (03/05) on couple QEMUs from CVS 0.6.2
(Host FEDORA or CentOS) without huge problems (With or without
IDE patch). I tried both instalation from CD-ROM image and CD
(/dev/cdrom).

Issues:
1. If HOST is LINUX check your kernel (QEMU dont like some kernel
hacks to make LINUX kernel faster). What is your HOST OS ?

2. I found than on very fast mashines, if proccessor is faster
then 2Ghz, time insise Solaris 10 instalation is very deformed.
In places where Solaris must wait by default 30s it waits maximum
only 2 seconds. !!! Have anybody idea why ??? What hardware you
have ?  
I use a couple tricks to make instaltion faster:
1. I use only 125MB of memory on install time of first CD, this
will automaticly switch instalation to text mode. After system
will install first CD, use for next boot and instalaiton of rest
CDs 256MB of memory.

2. I use a network floppy image from
http://www.tools.de/solaris/itu/ and add driver in DCA (mount
floppy image du.ing as fda and press escape on begining of
instalation, after F4 add driver) I configure network in user
mode manualy (DHCP don't put right gateway or / and  DNS ?)
ne2000 driver works OK

3. I use a RAW format for hardrive image, QCOW with compression
is realtively slow if you use a CD image on same disk.

4. If you have a relativly slow proccessor you can in LINUX do:

renice -8 (pid of QEMU) 

It will speed up Solaris 10 instalation 

Rudolf 



----- PŮVODNÍ ZPRÁVA -----
Od: "Juergen Keil" <jk@tools.de>
Komu: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Předmět: Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on
Datum: 22.4.2005 - 11:04:45

> > I just pulled the source from CVS and applied the
> > mentioned patch
> 
> Which patch?
> 
> 
> > but had no luck (tried running qemu both
> > with and without -isa). It keeps bumping on the
> > "cannot mount root"
> > error and reboot automatically again and again.
> 
> Are you trying to install Solaris 9 x86, or Solaris 10
> x86?
> 
> Looking at your screenshot image, it seems you're
> trying to install Solaris 9
> x86.
> 
> I do see some slight differences between Solaris 9 and
> 10 x86, and qemu-cvs:
> 
> Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" crashes with pci-ide
> timeout and abort 
> error messages (with exactly the error messages that
> you've got).
> 
> Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-isa" works.
> 
> Solaris 9 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" + attached ide.c patch
> works, and uses
> ide hdd dma transfers. 
> 
> 
> Solaris 10 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" works, but complains
> that the ide controller
> is not busmaster dma capable, so ide hdd pio transfers
> are used instead of
> dma transfers.
> 
> Solaris 10 x86 & qemu cvs "-pci" + attached ide.c patch
> detects a pci busmaster
> capable ide controller and uses ide dma transfers.
> 
> 
> (Note tested by me, but reported to work:)  Solaris
> "next" x86 & qemu cvs
> "-pci" + attached ide.c patch is able to use dma
> transfers for both the
> ide hdd and the ide atapi cdrom.
> 


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris (9 and 10) supported on 0.6.1?

[Celso Pinto]

Hi,
>> I just pulled the source from CVS and applied the mentioned patch
>
> Which patch?

hmmm not the one you just sent. Taking a look at this patch, the only code
I patched was:
@@ -500,6 +506,10 @@
 static inline void ide_set_irq(IDEState *s)
 {
     if (!(s->cmd & IDE_CMD_DISABLE_IRQ)) {
+        BMDMAState *bm = s->bmdma;
+        if(bm)
+            bm->status |= BM_STATUS_INT;
+

and
+    pci_conf[0x09] = 0x8a; // programming interface = PCI_IDE bus master
is supported

I'll surely give it one more go ASAP with this patch and your use cases,
as I'm really keen on getting this working.


To be honest, I can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge on this
matter.

Cheers,
Celso


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