[Qemu-devel] about serial port support

[Qemu-devel] about serial port support

[Cai Qiang]

Hi everyone,
	I am doing qemu serial port support. It works like below:
1. in command line, -serial /dev/ttyS0 and so on
2. in vl.c, init the port
3. in hw/serial.c, when serial seting changed, notify vl.c also change host 
OS's seting.
	Is this feature useful? Is there any better implement? Any comments are 
welcome.

Best Regards

	Cai Qiang

Re: [Qemu-devel] about serial port support

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 06:43:12AM +0000, Cai Qiang wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 	I am doing qemu serial port support. It works like below:
> 1. in command line, -serial /dev/ttyS0 and so on
> 2. in vl.c, init the port
> 3. in hw/serial.c, when serial seting changed, notify vl.c also change host 
> OS's seting.
> 	Is this feature useful? Is there any better implement? Any comments are 
> welcome.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 	Cai Qiang
> 

This has been asked for many times, but you are the first to implement it.

-- 
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.

RE: [Qemu-devel] about serial port support

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Serial support is of course usefull. I know of some kind of debugging
over a serial port and if this could work between two qemu instances,
it would be nice.

About the implementation, I believe there are some cracks around which
could help you.

Andreas

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> Hi everyone,
> 	I am doing qemu serial port support. It works like below:
> 1. in command line, -serial /dev/ttyS0 and so on
> 2. in vl.c, init the port
> 3. in hw/serial.c, when serial seting changed, notify vl.c 
> also change host 
> OS's seting.
> 	Is this feature useful? Is there any better implement? 
> Any comments are 
> welcome.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 	Cai Qiang
> 
> 
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[Qemu-devel] FreeDOS Testimage

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Hello all

I have a simple disk image with the current FreeDOS kernel (2035a).
When loading FreeDOS with HIMEM, EMM386 and FDAPM together, I loose
the keyboard and QEMU freeze. I can't switch to the monitor nor the
other consoles (ser0, par0). I need to kill the QEMU process. This
happens on my WinXP host with all QEMU versions I have (from 0.6.1 to
daily builds from FreeOSZoo and my owns). I will verify on my Gentoo
machine at my work tomorrow.

The image can be downloaded here:

http://geodb.org/download/fdostest.zip (124kB)

Start QEMU with this image as the first hard disk. When starting, you
will be prompted for loading the three binaries HIMEM, EMM386 and
FDAPM. Keep in mind, that no keyboard driver is loaded (may need to
press Z for Yes...).

none -> OK, but CPU usage is 100%
FDAPM -> OK
HIMEM + FDAPM -> OK
HIMEM + EMM386 -> OK, but CPU usage is 100%
HIMEM + EMM386 + FDAPM -> freeze

I have the same effekt with DOSIDLE for FDAPM.

This files works on my P350 without a clue.

If someone could test and get an idea whats wrong, please let me know.

Andreas

Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu 0.6.2 and XP

[Andreas Bollhalder]

I tried the math on my WinXP host with Win2k guest.

When using the following math with my 8192MB QCOW image, QEMU refuse
to start:

1 Block = 512 Bytes

Cylinders = Blocks / (Heads * Sectors)

(kBytes * 2) / (16 * 63)
(8388608 kBytes * 2) / (16 * 63)

For 8192MB Image: -hdachs 16644,16,63


I brute forced the cylinder value, QEMU will start with a lower or
equal value of 16383 cylinders.

I made my own math based on this:

Cylinders = Blocks / (Heads * (Sectors + 1)) - 1

(kBytes * 2) / (16 * 64) - 1
(8388608 kBytes * 2) / (16 * 64) - 1

For 8192MB Image: -hdachs 16383,16,63


I'm realy confused about what's right or not. I created the image with
the QEMU Manager. Can anyone explain this ???

Andreas


Ben Taylor wrote:

> I forgot one very important part.  The calculation needs
> to be <img size in bytes> / (heads * sectors per cylinder 
> * 512 bytes) = cylinders. so in your case, the calculation is close

> well, the default sector size is 512, and you've done
> your sizing in number of 1k blocks, your calculations was
> close.  It should be:
>
>   blocks     secs/block      hds     sec/cyl
>
> (2 000 000   *   2 )    /  (   16   *   63 ) = 3968

> The first time I did the math, my 2g partition went
> to 8g partition when I used the -hdachs parameters
> cause I really screwed up the math.  (it appears if
> you mess your c-h-s values, your image since may
> change. :-)

> HTH, and sorry for the confusion.

> Ben