[Qemu-devel] Under WinXP, Solaris installation does not work in qemu 0.9.1 but does work in qemu 0.9.0

[Qemu-devel] Under WinXP, Solaris installation does not work in qemu 0.9.1 but does work in qemu 0.9.0

[Dmitry Bolshakov]

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P4 3.40GHz
WinXP Professional SP2

Solaris Express Developer Edition 2/07 DVD iso image
(I have 2/07 but latest version is 9/07 
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp)

qemu-0.9.1:
-probably all binaries versions from the 
http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4235
-builded by myself too
http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4269

qemu-0.9.0: binaries from http://www1.interq.or.jp/~t-takeda/qemu/

accelerator module: directly from the project site 
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz




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I do not know how to get text from qemu window so I attached 
screenshots. Small comment - normal setup goes almost without delay, but 
errors appear after 1 or 2 minutes delay (and continue to appear by the 
same "blocks" with the same interval





PS
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may be small bug:
"qemu-img.exe create img 7G" - creates 7GB file
"qemu-img.exe create img 9G" - creates 9GB file
but
"qemu-img.exe create img 8G" - creates _zero_ file ???
but
"qemu-img.exe create img 8000M" - creates 8Gb file

I have checked probably all binaries versions from the 
http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4235


PPS
Sorry for my poor English

-- 
With best regards
Dmitry Bolshakov

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Under WinXP, Solaris installation does not work in qemu 0.9.1 but does work in qemu 0.9.0

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:31:05PM +0300, Dmitry Bolshakov wrote:
> 
> qemu-0.9.1:
> -builded by myself too
> http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4269

qemu 0.9.1 was released with a known bug which prevents installing solaris
guests with timeouts in the CD device and which was finally fixed with the
patch from :

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-01/msg00211.html

Carlo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Under WinXP, Solaris installation does not work in qemu 0.9.1 but does work in qemu 0.9.0

[Juergen Keil]

> P4 3.40GHz
> WinXP Professional SP2
> 
> Solaris Express Developer Edition 2/07 DVD iso image
> (I have 2/07 but latest version is 9/07 
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp)
> 
> qemu-0.9.1:
...
> Small comment - normal setup goes almost without delay, but 
> errors appear[*] after 1 or 2 minutes delay (and continue to appear by the 
> same "blocks" with the same interval

> [*] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1,1/ide@1 (ata1):
>         timeout: abort requested, target=0 lun=0


Workaround is to disable the use of DMA data transfers for the Solaris
ata driver.  Edit the boot entry in the initial grub menu and append
",ata-dma-enabled=0" at the end of the line starting with "kernel ...".


The kernel command should look similar to this:

    kernel /boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom,ata-dma-enabled=0