Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: floppy controller missing in acpi tables

[Ben Taylor <sol10x86@cox.net>]

---- Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org> wrote: 
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ben Taylor wrote:
> 
> > (ITU), such as the DiskUpdate on tools.de/solaris/itu/DU.zip which 
> > has a modifed RTL8029 driver that works with Qemu on SolarisX86. 
> > Obviosly, if you boot a Solaris 10/x86 install with -B 
> > acpi-user-options=0x0, you will not see the floppy.  (I see that a 
> > patch is in the works for OpenSolaris, so eventually this will be 
> > fixed for good on Solaris).
> 
> Excellent, thanks Ben and Juergen.
> 
> FWIW, the RTL8139 NIC in current Qemu /ought/ to work with the 'rtls' 
> driver included with Solaris. I havn't managed to test this yet as 
> Qemu CVS /seems/ still to have timeout issues with Solaris NV 39 
> (booting from the install CD at least).

You have to turn off atapi-cd-dma-enabled at the initial solaris
grub boot prompt like:

hit "e" on the primary solaris install

add ",-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0" to the line
then hit "b" to boot.

That should get you a working install.

> Also, there was an AMD PCNet patch for Qemu (by Anthony Curtis). 
> Which (possibly) Xen are using, but it is not included with Qemu. 
> Solaris has a driver for this, based on the newer 'GLDv2' NIC driver 
> framework.


> I tried quickly (ie i spent 5 minutes on it) porting Anthony's patch 
> to the updated VLAN-client framework in Qemu, it gets recognised by 
> the Solaris miniroot, but I must have missed something / made a 
> mistake as Qemu crashes.

Just use the ITU from Juergen.  I've installed solaris express b39
and used the ni driver from the ITU and ti works like a champ.
(Juergen modified Murayama's ni (ne2000) driver to work correctly
with qemu).

Ben



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