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

[Diego Woitasen <diego@woitasen.com.ar>]

2009/8/12 Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:11:27AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> > Fwiw, I just installed SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 using kvm-88 and it did
>> > worse than fail: it *froze my whole PC*.  It happened early on while
>> > booting from CD and checking hardware.  Power cycle needd.  Thanks guys :-)
>> >
>> > Installing it on qemu-0.10.0-1ubuntu1 worked quite well.
>>
>> You aren't doing anything crazy like running both vmware and kvm at the
>> same time are you?
>>
>> Impresive that you can lockup the PC.
>
> No, just kvm, nothing fancy.  Not even kqemu.
> kvm is good enough that I don't use vmware these days ;-)
>
> "Impressive" isn't the word that comes to mind.  "Exploitable" maybe :-)
>
> There's a small chance it was the X server.  That tends to lock up
> occasionally at random, so I'll have to try it again to confirm.
> OpenServer was probing the IDE disk at the time, so it looks suspicious.
>
> -- Jamie
>



Anyone has the Unixware 2.1.3 media kit? 2.1 works on QEMU 0.9.1 only
but QEMU hangs when there is high I/O activity. With versions 0.10.x
UW 2.1 doesn't boot and the kernel prints an error about IDE
controller timeout.

-- 
Diego Woitasen