[Qemu-devel] some misc experiment

[Qemu-devel] some misc experiment

[Ronald]

Hi,

there are some things I have tried.

image format first: I wanted to know if I could use qcow without base
file, and this work, going further I can convert a raw image to compressed
qcow then install an os on this one, tried with win install, partitionning
made before convertion. Note windows (98) now configures sb correctly.

Secondly, as sdl support fb on linux, I wanted to try with the accelerated
driver for my card (radeonfb:mode_option=1024x768-16@72) but no success,
qemu is running but there is no output (black screen), with vesafb
(vga=788 video=vesa:mtrr) there is graphical output, but the keyboard is
shifted, with azerty=op^$<enter><left ctrl>, mouse behave badly too but
that worked with win guest in a previous test, could be imps2 vs ps2. 
Using ssh to connect to guest I must switch between console after each
validation to get the output of the command, characters are not echoed
when typed.
Oh, and I took my first fbshot: http://daimon55.free.fr/divers/qemu.fb.gz 
Don't know if cat qemu.fb > /dev/fb? should works every where.