[Qemu-devel] qemu and Mathematica

[Qemu-devel] qemu and Mathematica

[Falk Hueffner]

Hi,

I'm very interested in getting Mathematica to run with qemu, since I
currently do not have an i386 machine. However, trying to run the
binary on Alpha results in a segfault:

falk@juist:/src/qemu% ./qemu ../qemu.works3/MathKernel
Mathematica 3.0 for Linux
Copyright 1988-96 Wolfram Research, Inc.
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./qemu ../qemu.works3/MathKernel

If anybody wants to debug this or at least try whether it works on
another host architecture, I would be happy to send the binary (there
should be no legal problem, since a license key is required to
actually work with it).

-- 
	Falk

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and Mathematica

[Herbert Pötzl]

> Hi,
>
> I'm very interested in getting Mathematica to run with qemu, since I
> currently do not have an i386 machine. However, trying to run the
> binary on Alpha results in a segfault:

hmm, why not get a newer version (like 4.2) which
should work nicely on AlphaLinux ...

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin41/license.html

I guess you are working with a student's license,
so there should be no big deal upgrading ...

HTH,
Herbert

> falk@bogus.example.com:/src/qemu% ./qemu ../qemu.works3/MathKernel
> Mathematica 3.0 for Linux
> Copyright 1988-96 Wolfram Research, Inc.
> zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./qemu ../qemu.works3/MathKernel

> If anybody wants to debug this or at least try whether it works on
> another host architecture, I would be happy to send the binary (there
> should be no legal problem, since a license key is required to
> actually work with it).

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and Mathematica

[Falk Hueffner]

Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:

> > I'm very interested in getting Mathematica to run with qemu, since
> > I currently do not have an i386 machine. However, trying to run
> > the binary on Alpha results in a segfault:
> 
> hmm, why not get a newer version (like 4.2) which should work nicely
> on AlphaLinux ...

Unfortunately, for Alpha Linux, there is only the "professional"
version for ¤2649, which is somewhat more than I would be willing to
pay.

BTW, I meanwhile tried it on i386, and it seems to work mostly:

Mathematica 3.0 for Linux
Copyright 1988-96 Wolfram Research, Inc.
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 82
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Function not implemented
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 82
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 82
qemu: Unsupported syscall: 82

huh? 82 seems to be "select", which really should be implemented...
And the yp_match messge seems to come from the binary itself (probably
from the statically linked libc in it). I hope to be able to have a
closer look at this later...

-- 
	Falk

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and Mathematica

[Herbert Pötzl]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:31:12PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
> 
> > > I'm very interested in getting Mathematica to run with qemu, since
> > > I currently do not have an i386 machine. However, trying to run
> > > the binary on Alpha results in a segfault:
> > 
> > hmm, why not get a newer version (like 4.2) which should work nicely
> > on AlphaLinux ...
> 
> Unfortunately, for Alpha Linux, there is only the "professional"
> version for ¤2649, which is somewhat more than I would be willing to
> pay.

maybe in Austria we are priviledged, because my

Mathematica Version 4.1 Win/Max/Linux
"TU Wien Studentenlizenz" CD contains the
following ... 

# ls /mnt/cdrom/Unix/Installers/

DEC-AXP/  HP-RISC/  IBM-RISC/  Linux/  
Linux-AXP/  Linux-PPC/  SGI/  Solaris/

best,
Herbert