Hi,

Serge wrote:

>Hallo Martin,
>
>Help !
>
>I'm trying to use my CSWQemu, after reading all possible docs and dowloading 
>several freedos.img, from Qemu and from Bochs.
>It seems that it works properly, i see immediately the DOS environment and my 
>CPU isn't too charged.
>  
>

the CSWqemu package is obsolete (0.7.2).
I'm updating it soon to 0.8.2.
You can easily fetch and build the current version yourself from
http://www.qemu.com/qemu-0.8.2.tar.gz .
A recent release should add support for vvfat (virtual-VFAT), as
developed by Johannes Schindelin.
Though I didn't test it myself, only read about it.
It's goal seems to be, to take a UNIX directory, specify it on the qemu
cmd line, and then to mount it from inside under DOS up to Win9x's
MS-DOS 7.00, 7.10, 7.10a and WinME's MS-DOS8.00 as virtual vfat (vfat
suggests longer than 8.3 names, but not sure).
Never tried it, but sounds promising.

>But ... i cannot understand either how to copy my own files in any .img (a.img 
>from Bochs or the main freedos.img) nor how to access to my real floppy 
>(/dev/fd/0, right ?).
>  
>

The classic way:
Think of QEMU as of a real PC.
How can you get files in or out??
Right: Floppy (image or physical), CD/DVD (img or physical), hdd (img or
physical), or network (virtual NE2000 is "plugged into" qemu), or maybe
even USB.

Either use raw devices like your host's /dev/fd0 for diskette.
Or burn a CD if you find it easier, insert it into one of your host's
drives and specify it as "qemu -m 512m -k us-en -cdrom
/dev/rdisk/c5t0d0s2 -fda /dev/fd0 /boot a" (for example / if vold is
disabled), to boot from floppy and have the cdrom attached.
You need then - of course - some compatible cdrom-driver for DOS as well
as mscdex.exe in your MS-DOS startup files.
Try a Win98se boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com and friends.

Or, to not waste time and a CD medium, just create an iso of a chosen
directory with the grand mkisofs.

For example:
mkisofs -o cd.iso cd_dir
(see the mkisofs man page!).


You might be better advised to directly ask the QEMU user service/forum.
Or maybe their Developers-ML for devel. questions.
Unfortunately is www.qemu.com currently down.
So I cannot provide you exact links. However: Be sure to read the full
QEMU documentation.
Helping out will be a tough job otherwise.
Plus did you read "qemu --help" ?

This is a bit OT and we might get trouble if we stay on the
opensol-discuss list for that topic.
Please contact me in private if you experience further difficulties.


Martin



>Of course i can also build Qemu from sources, but for the moment i think that 
>is only an usage problem.
>
>Can you please tell me what you means about my actual issue ?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sergio
> 
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