[Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Jean-Michel POURE]

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Dear all,

Please find enclosed an updated version of the OS support table with 
alphabetical ordering and more GNU/Linux distros.

The last CVS versions evolved so quickly that the OS list probably needs to be 
updated with several systems.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

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Re: [Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Brad Campbell]

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Windows 2000 SP4 	- 	0.5.5 	Install Fails with disk full message.

This also occurs with SP3 although most of the time it just hangs idle at the end of hardware 
detection. When it does get to the bit where I can feed it my details and product key, it then 
gripes about out of space. I have been meaning to loopback mount the filesystem after this and see 
what it has filled the disk up with, as when I go to re-install from scratch it tells me I have an 
NTFS disk of 2999MB in size with 99MB free! Must do that.

> Windows XP 	? 	0.5.5 	Some people can launch it. Need more information.

XP-SP1 is a no-go for me, it just idles at some point late in the install and never gets past it.

WinME (Yech) works fine and I have had no issues installing it since 0.5.5 was released. (I test 
re-install quite a bit and track qemu CVS, so I don't use the releases).

-pci is working for me, but -cirrusvga has some isues with drawing in dos mode still. I'll get a 
screen shot as soon as I get a chance.

Regards,
Brad

Re: [Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Karel Gardas]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

> The last CVS versions evolved so quickly that the OS list probably needs to be
> updated with several systems.

   Solaris 9 x86 - 0.5.5 doesn't boot
   Solaris 10 x86 - 0.5.5 doesn't boot

IMHO both should boot at least in 0.5.6 -- as already reported Pavel Janik
and me. The problem was with Solaris installer on the installation CD
which is probably written in Java which doesn't work till the patches to
support ffree opcodes which were added recently. Anyway, with or without
Java, Solaris is able to be installed by using CD#1 and in fact is running
quite well for me now (at least version 9). -- I have tested mainly pci
and pci/cirrus so I don't know about plain isa, but at least I know that
it booted with plain isa in the past...

Cheers,

Karel
--
Karel Gardas                  kgardas@objectsecurity.com
ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com

Re: [Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Christopher Nehren]

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:29:22 EDT, Jean-Michel Poure scribbled these
curious markings:

[snipped various OSs]

[snipped numerous Linux distributions -- they're just a kernel, so it'd
probably be better to mention kernel versions]

> <tr><td> NetBSD <td> OK <td> 0.5.5 <td> Could test only small.ffs. FPU
> detection bug will be solved in 0.5.6.

1.6.2 works perfectly for me, installed from i386cd.iso. That's rather
wonderful, because I've wanted to play with NetBSD for a while. I
haven't noticed any FPU detection bug, but then, I'm using CVS
snapshots. All in all, though, NetBSD 1.6.2 works as it would in 
VMWare -- even better, in fact, since it doesn't like to install under
VMWare unless you twiddle with the IDE slave / master settings and then
hope a lot and have some luck.

Not mentioned: OpenBSD 3.5. From the small part of the installation that
I've tried, it works fine. I'll do a full install later.

Also not mentioned: DragonFlyBSD. It's on my TODO list. Since it's still
mostly FreeBSD at this point, it should be mostly fine.

Also ^ 2 not mentioned: FreeBSD. Haven't tested it much. It doesn't seem
able to detect the QEMU virtual hard disk. Is there something peculiar
about this drive? If not, I'll boot NetBSD, get the specs, and see if I
can't figure out why it's not finding it. The small amount of FreeSBIE
that I've tested works fine. Note to those testing FreeSBIE: it takes a
while to boot because of the kernel's hardcoded HZ value. This is
mentioned in QEMU's FreeBSD port pkg-message.

> <tr><td> Windows 2000 <td> OK <td> 0.5.5 <td> Long hardware probe. 

Will try it once I get a copy.

> <tr><td> Windows XP <td> ? <td> 0.5.5 <td> Some people can launch it. Need
> more information.

It likes to core dump on me at various points during the install. I
almost had it installed once, but it was SIGSTOP'd and then my X
crashed. I'll try again today.

> <h2>PowerPC Emulation</h2>

Don't suppose that there's any chance of this working on a non-GNU host? 
Particularly with speed somewhat equivalent to that of i386-softmmu? :) 
PearPC is great, but a bit too slow for my taste as of yet.

-- 
I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson
-
Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Juergen Lock]

In article <20040615185917.GA85603@prophecy.dyndns.org> you write:
>
>On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:29:22 EDT, Jean-Michel Poure scribbled these
>curious markings:
>
>[snipped various OSs]
>
>[snipped numerous Linux distributions -- they're just a kernel, so it'd
>probably be better to mention kernel versions]
>
>> <tr><td> NetBSD <td> OK <td> 0.5.5 <td> Could test only small.ffs. FPU
>> detection bug will be solved in 0.5.6.

>...
>Also ^ 2 not mentioned: FreeBSD. Haven't tested it much. It doesn't seem
>able to detect the QEMU virtual hard disk. Is there something peculiar
>about this drive?

Is that 4.10 guest you're trying there?  that needs a fix that's just
been committed (thanks Fabrice btw!)  5.2.1 has been working for a
while now, tho for X to work you have to use -cirrusvga.

	Juergen

Re: [Qemu-devel] OS support table

[Christopher Nehren]

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 18:23:17 EDT, Juergen Lock scribbled these
curious markings:
> Is that 4.10 guest you're trying there?  that needs a fix that's just
> been committed (thanks Fabrice btw!)  5.2.1 has been working for a
> while now, tho for X to work you have to use -cirrusvga.


Yeah, but I thought that just applied to raw disks.

-- 
I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson
-
Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.

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[Qemu-devel] Re: OS support table

[Adam D. Moss]

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Windows 98SE 	OK 	0.5.5 	

FYI, I'm trying what I believe is win98-first-edition and it
works pretty well (with CVS-qemu, which is all I've tried).

--Adam

[Qemu-devel] OS Support Table

[Natalia Portillo]

I think that this should be implemented as a wiki where every user could be
able to add their own operating systems to the list.

Re: [Qemu-devel] OS Support Table

[Frederic Bezies]

Le 07/22/2004 09:51 AM,  Natalia Portillo a écrit :

> I think that this should be implemented as a wiki where every user could be
> able to add their own operating systems to the list.

Could be a great idea :)

Just to be more useful, you can add - personal tests - with qemu 0.6.0 :

- Mandrake 10.0 official (slow, but works)
- DragonFly BSD 1.0

I will test :

- Yoper 2.0 (a debian based distro ?)
- OS/2 3 & 4
- Nasgaïa Linux (a linux 2.4.20 based distro)
- Slackware 10.0

Answer as soon as possible ;p

-- 
Frédéric Béziès - mozjf@alussinan.org

[Qemu-devel] Re: OS Support Table

[Ben Pfaff]

Frederic Bezies <frederic.bezies@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Just to be more useful, you can add - personal tests - with qemu 0.6.0 :
>
> - Mandrake 10.0 official (slow, but works)
> - DragonFly BSD 1.0

I can confirm that NT 3.51 does *not* work at the moment.
-- 
"The road to hell is paved with convenient shortcuts."
--Peter da Silva

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: OS Support Table

[Frederic Bezies]

Le 07/22/2004 05:08 PM,  Ben Pfaff a écrit :

> Frederic Bezies <frederic.bezies@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> 
>>Just to be more useful, you can add - personal tests - with qemu 0.6.0 :
>>
>>- Mandrake 10.0 official (slow, but works)
>>- DragonFly BSD 1.0
> 
> I can confirm that NT 3.51 does *not* work at the moment.

To add to the list :

- MS-Dos 6.21 + Win 3.1
- Windows Chicago build 117 or 122 ? -> which became Win95 :p

If somebody want screenshots of Chicago ;p

-- 
Frédéric Béziès - mozjf@alussinan.org