Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images
Hello. Yes but if I understood well, you can't boot on the SCSI device because of BIOS limitations right? So the problem remains ... :) Maybe if you install GRUB and tell him to boot on SCSI.. :) --- François. Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 10:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : on x86, qemu by default does not emulate a scsi device. if you look at my last set of postings, you will see a patch set for adding scsi controllers on demand. its got some code formatting issues, so i understand why it hasnt been merged as of yet. i intend to publish a new version in the next couple of days. Julia Longtin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:33:31PM +0200, GUERRAZ Francois wrote: Hello. Micro$oft's 64bits OSes are known to be problematic w/ kvm. I guess that the main problem w/ Qemu is that Microsoft Virtual Server can emulate a SCSI controller and Qemu cannot... I havent checked but I bet they installed their VM's with just SCSI drivers... Try to install IDE drivers from VM Ware and then to boot from QEMU. Also, try to disable ACPI (update the computer driver to Standard PC if available) Regards, François. Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 23:35 +0930, Dan Shearer a écrit : I have been playing around with the demonstration Windows images downloadable from Microsoft just to see how hard it would be to use the OSs they provide. The images are designed for Microsoft Virtual Server, but can be successfully converted to qcow2 and vhdx using qemu-img. QEMU won't boot the images (not a difficult problem, I think) but VMware can. I'll try other free virtualisation systems at some point. See http://shearer.org/Microsoft_Demo_VMs for my notes so far.
[Qemu-devel] etherboot support in x86_64 mode?
I notice that the -boot n etherboot support doesn't appear to work when emulating x86_64 hardware (invocation as qemu-system-x86_64). Is this intentional? A known issue?
Re: [Qemu-devel] IBM makes AIX 6 beta available for download for everyone
Am 30.07.2007 um 22:37 schrieb Andreas Färber: Maybe someone can shed some more light on what exactly needs to be changed config-wise or is missing in OpenBIOS or qemu in order to boot AIX 6 or any Linux. Can't tell you much, but for sure, you won't need support for HFS or HFS+. HFS support enables you to boot all versions of classic Mac OS (1.0 to 9.2.2). HFS+ can be used for Mac OS 8.1 and later. Mac OS X can boot off HFS+ and off UFS. All PPC Macintosh OSs use an Apple partition map. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/
Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images
GUERRAZ Francois wrote: Hello. Yes but if I understood well, you can't boot on the SCSI device because of BIOS limitations right? So the problem remains ... :) Maybe if you install GRUB and tell him to boot on SCSI.. :) GRUB uses BIOS... Laurent -- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Software is hard - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Qemu-devel] IBM makes AIX 6 beta available for download for everyone
Am 02.08.2007 um 09:51 schrieb Markus Hitter: Am 30.07.2007 um 22:37 schrieb Andreas Färber: Maybe someone can shed some more light on what exactly needs to be changed config-wise or is missing in OpenBIOS or qemu in order to boot AIX 6 or any Linux. Can't tell you much, but for sure, you won't need support for HFS or HFS+. HFS support enables you to boot all versions of classic Mac OS (1.0 to 9.2.2). HFS+ can be used for Mac OS 8.1 and later. Mac OS X can boot off HFS+ and off UFS. All PPC Macintosh OSs use an Apple partition map. To install Debian I needed a minimum of three partitions: one Apple partition, one NewWorld bootloader partition (yaboot) and the standard ext3 root partition. No idea how the first two are structured. I believe the point about HFS+ was that this would be required in order to replace OpenHackWare with OpenBIOS completely in the future. Andreas
