[Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Joe Menola]

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Jim C. Brown]

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 :)

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

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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Joe Menola]

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Jim C. Brown]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:09:17PM -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> If I go thru the modify config/compile scene will win98 run in qemu-fast mode?
> 

What would you modify/config/compile? I thought win98 was only available in
binary form. Or perhaps you have something that I don't have. ;):):)

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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Joe Menola]

On Wed June 30 2004 8:22 pm, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:09:17PM -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> > If I go thru the modify config/compile scene will win98 run in qemu-fast
> > mode?
>
> What would you modify/config/compile? I thought win98 was only available in
> binary form. Or perhaps you have something that I don't have. ;):):)

lol- yeah, Bill Gates gave a  back door code for 98. I meant compiling the 
host kernel, or does that not apply to qemm-fast?
Looks like more reading is in order. :)

-jm

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-fast

[Emre Ersin]

Please!...
Can anybody help me to run qemu-fast! I tried at least a  thousand times on different machines (both intel32 and amd32) and nothing happened! Only qemu-softmmu  is running. I have re-compiled qemu then  at the end, it freezes terminal that I have run qemu.