Re: [Qemu-devel] SCO Unixware 2.1.x on qemu

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:14:11PM +0200, Andreas F?rber wrote:
> 
> Am 09.08.2009 um 22:12 schrieb Diego Woitasen:
> 
> >The installation works with QEMU but it doesn't detect the CDROM. Is
> >there something new in the virtual cdrom that makes Unixware fails on
> >its detection? Is there something in the code that I could change? I
> >trie'd my floppies and the CD on an old HP machine and works but the
> >CDROM must have to be connected as primary slave. Using "-drive
> >index=1...." doesn't work with QEMU.
> 
> Justin Chevrier sent some patches for an SCO OpenServer guest, last  
> fall/winter. Part of it were some SCSI fixes iirc, so you could try  
> emulating a SCSI rather than IDE CD-ROM drive.
> You might also want to check whether all the SCO-related patches  
> actually got committed. Patches for non-mainstream guests or hosts  
> tend to get less attention.

Note that OpenServer is not related to Unixware 2.x at all.  OpenServer
was the last incarnation of the SVR3-based SCO Unix, while Unixware 2.x
was the straight SVR4.2MP they acquired later.

> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
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