[Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Fabrice Bellard]

Hi,

QEMU version 0.5.5 is available at http://bellard.org/qemu. A binary 
distribution for x86 is also available. This release features a much 
improved Windows 98 support (full install, CD-ROM, floppy, VGA, network) 
and VGA support for the PowerPC PREP target.

version 0.5.5:

   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
   - FDC fixes for Win98

Fabrice.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> QEMU version 0.5.5 is available at http://bellard.org/qemu. A binary 
> distribution for x86 is also available. This release features a much 
> improved Windows 98 support (full install, CD-ROM, floppy, VGA, network) 
> and VGA support for the PowerPC PREP target.

It still suffers from a freeze (in a very specific place)
I use the MSDN download version of windows 98, without modifying 
autoexec.bat and config.sys (so no DOS mode CDROM support)

1. Installation and copying goes well.
2. 2nd stage goes well, prompts to reboot
3. 3rd stage (still detecting PnP hardware) starts and 1 minute later 
freezes..

Thanks,
Hetz

RE: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Misty De Meo]

Curiously, Windows 98 will no longer install for me in the new version. I've 
tried to install using QEMU's mkcow utility and Bochs' bximage, but neither 
works. Windows setup refuses to recognize the CD while formatting; it tells 
me to insert the Windows CD, even though it's already in. If I format the 
hard drive using fdisk, it tries to scan the registry, displays the error 
message "Windows Setup requires 7340032 bytes available on your C drive"  
and then simply repeats lines of / over and over until I quit QEMU. I've 
tried this with flat hard drive images of 512MB and 1024MB as well as a COW 
image of 1024MB. I'm using a PowerPC processor as host.

~ Misty

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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Michael Torrie]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 09:07, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> QEMU version 0.5.5 is available at http://bellard.org/qemu. A binary 
> distribution for x86 is also available. This release features a much 
> improved Windows 98 support (full install, CD-ROM, floppy, VGA, network) 
> and VGA support for the PowerPC PREP target.

Even with the new vbe patches, using the latest CVS code, I still see
the horizontal black lines through the screen when I run Win2k with the
bochs vbe driver.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  The black lines
even show up when using vnc.

Michael

> 
> version 0.5.5:
> 
>    - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
>    - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
>    - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
>    - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
>    - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
>    - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
>    - FDC fixes for Win98
> 
> Fabrice.
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Torrie <torriem@chem.byu.edu>

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Jason Gress]

On Saturday 08 May 2004 01:44 pm, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 09:07, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > QEMU version 0.5.5 is available at http://bellard.org/qemu. A binary
> > distribution for x86 is also available. This release features a much
> > improved Windows 98 support (full install, CD-ROM, floppy, VGA, network)
> > and VGA support for the PowerPC PREP target.
>
> Even with the new vbe patches, using the latest CVS code, I still see
> the horizontal black lines through the screen when I run Win2k with the
> bochs vbe driver.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  The black lines
> even show up when using vnc.
It tends to work ok at certain resolution/color combos.  I use 1024x768x16bit 
w/o problems.

	Jason


>
> Michael
>
> > version 0.5.5:
> >
> >    - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
> >    - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
> >    - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
> >    - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
> >    - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
> >    - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
> >    - FDC fixes for Win98
> >
> > Fabrice.
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Qemu-devel mailing list
> > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 17:07 +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> version 0.5.5:
>    - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)

How well is this expected to work on ARM? With 0.5.5 I can at least now
run a static busybox, but not dynamically linked binaries.

This is with glibc 2.3.2 -- the latest file system from handhelds.org.

-- 
dwmw2

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Fabrice Bellard]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 17:07 +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
>>version 0.5.5:
>>   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
> 
> 
> How well is this expected to work on ARM? With 0.5.5 I can at least now
> run a static busybox, but not dynamically linked binaries.
> 
> This is with glibc 2.3.2 -- the latest file system from handhelds.org.

With the dynamically linked ARM binaries on the QEMU web site, it works, 
so it may be an FPU related bug or a bug in an ARM instruction which was 
not used in the binary I used. It can also be a syscall problem.

The simplest way to debug is to recompile the libc and the dynamic 
linker and to insert "printf" (or write syscalls) at the right place. If 
you have the time and all the needed tools, the bug should be easy to track.

Fabrice.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Fabrice Bellard]

Just a note: the QEMU CVS has now support for Windows 95 too (it does 
not install correctly in QEMU 0.5.5 because of an FPU emulation bug). 
Using Windows 95 can be interesting if you have a slow host.

Fabrice.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[Lennert Buytenhek]

When trying to install the latest FreeDOS on qemu 0.5.5, I get this:

Invalid Opcode at C833 3478 3046 109B C290 106F 03FF 2C7C D3B4 27C0 E7D1 7548 CDCF
Warning: error 127 occured! Press a key to continue
Fatal Error: GUI installer crashed or exited without installing
falling back to text installer.



On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 05:07:47PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> QEMU version 0.5.5 is available at http://bellard.org/qemu. A binary 
> distribution for x86 is also available. This release features a much 
> improved Windows 98 support (full install, CD-ROM, floppy, VGA, network) 
> and VGA support for the PowerPC PREP target.
> 
> version 0.5.5:
> 
>   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
>   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
>   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
>   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
>   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
>   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
>   - FDC fixes for Win98
> 
> Fabrice.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Qemu-devel mailing list
> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU version 0.5.5

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 12:41 +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> With the dynamically linked ARM binaries on the QEMU web site, it works, 
> so it may be an FPU related bug or a bug in an ARM instruction which was 
> not used in the binary I used. It can also be a syscall problem.
> 
> The simplest way to debug is to recompile the libc and the dynamic 
> linker and to insert "printf" (or write syscalls) at the right place. If 
> you have the time and all the needed tools, the bug should be easy to track.

I think I'd prefer to have qemu set LD_DEBUG=all for its child, and
maybe to get its gdb stub working. I'll play...

-- 
dwmw2