I figured, I’d make a package for the windows crowd.
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386bsd 0.1 on qemu installer
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Back to 386 BSD
Well gunkies is getting a little more life to it, and Dugo contributed this install guide for 386 BSD. Along the way I installed it again with floppy images, and I hit the same fault again:
/386bsd: wd0a: overlaps open partition (b)
However this time I noticed that if you keep on rebooting, it’ll actually stop complaining and work!
So not only was I able to recover from a crash after trying to install the source code, but I was able to complete the install, and install the patchkits! What this has resulted in, is that Qemu can now run 386BSD!!! And it’s significantly faster then Bochs. Not to mention you gain the whole SLiRP / Usermode networking.
So far I’ve tested this with Qemu-0.11.0 just fine. I’m not sure about other levels… so it’s another YMMV.
So now I’ve been able to not only rebuild the kernel & world, but the following programs:
gzip 1.2.4
unzip 5.52
irc II-4.4
lynx 2.8.2
Oh yeah, and another f2c build, and yes it’ll run Dungeon!
So for the few people interested in some BSD history, as this is the ‘first’ Net/2 derived freely available release in a qemu format right here (sorry, link removed, if you want it install this instead).
Just uncompress the qcow2 file (sorry it’ll blow out to 500MB), then run Qemu something like this:
i386-softmmu/qemu.exe -L pc-bios -hda bsd386.qcow2 -M isapc -net nic -net user -no-reboot -m 256
And with any luck, you’ll find the VM booting, and all set and ready to roll. If it comes up in single user-mode, just close Qemu & fire it up again..
I’ll probably put together a windows install package for this later, but for now I figure I’ll unleash some 386BSD onto the world.
Follow up on Visual C++ 2010
Ok, the machine I’m going to test this on, is a Vista x64 machine (I know I just couldn’t be bothered to upgrade it yet).
The CPU is an Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 running @ 2.50Ghz, with 8GB of ram.
The “Windows Experience Index” is 5.9 (It’s 5.9 across the board).
I’m using a redo of the SDL port of Quake 1 as a benchmark. You can download it here.
Unzip it somewhere, and I’ve tried to make this pretty easy to follow… There are precompiled EXE’s for various CPU’s and Visual C++ levels.
To build, setup your CLI with the VC environment variables, then simply cd into ‘ezquake\build’ and run:
nmake -f quake.mak
If you have Visual C++ 2.0 (I forget if I needed this for 4, and I just don’t feel like installing 5.0 right now) you may need a slight ‘hack’ to undefine some things that just don’t exist in the winmm.dll setup with the vc2.mak/b2.cmd .
And this should produce an EXE with the /O2 flags for a generically built maximum speed optimized EXE. If your make has issues, you can try the build.cmd file which just blindly compiles the thing one at a time…. It should work as well.
Then to test the exe, simply cd into the ‘ezquake\test’ and run:
..\build\quake -nomouse +timedemo demo1
Anyways, now for some interesting test results:
Visual C++ 2 x86 619.4 FPS
Visual C++ 4 x86 689.1 FPS
Visual C++ 6 x86 631.2 FPS
Visual C++ 2008 x64 375.7 FPS
Visual C++ 2008 x86 400.6 FPS
Visual C++ 2010 x86 772.2 FPS
Visual C++ 2010 x64 949.5 FPS
949 FPS in Quake1!
I’m blown away with just how fast this new version of Visual C++ is.
Visual Studio 2010 just shipped
So many editions!!… I’m already confused. I think this is the last version to support the Itanium, as that platform is basically cooked.
Considering how lackluster and scarce they were at the launch I guess it’s not surprising.
Anyways It’ll be nice to fire up the x64 CLI tools, and not be told that the ‘release’ is infarct a beta…
Anyways, there is some details over at the MSDN site.. And a demo/eval download.
On the ‘cheap’ front, the express editions are also updated to the 2010 level. I’d recommend getting the ‘offline’ ISO image… That way you’ve got all the bits in one shot.
On the UNIX front, I found that on OpenSolaris, that the SunStudio is a free download. This includes SUN’s C/C++/Fortran (77/90/95) compilers.
I took a quick look at the SUN F77 compiler, and it’s certainly the UNIX one from the days of v7 as it behaves the same way… I guess that’s not too surprising.
Other then that, not a heck of a lot going on.
More CDROM madness.
Well I found that one of the things that was preventing me from booting up this “Solaris 1.1.2” AKA SunOS 4.1.4 CD is that Qemu on Win32 using raw devices has issues with all these slices and whatnot.
Slices you say?
Yeah, back in the ISO9660 Rock Ridge days, CD-ROMS were basically given a common format for the “LCD” of the day. In that case MS-DOS. Naturally people like Unix vendors were not to keen on that, as they wanted file attributes, long file names, symbolic links etc… So a *LOT* of people started to split up their CD’s into partitions like hard disks, and slap down actual filesystems on the disks. NeXT just used one giant partition on the CD-ROM, but their exe format let them ‘bind’ all the CISC machines onto one CD, and all the RISC machines on another. Meanwhile SUN decided to make all these ‘boot’ partitions for various machines, a miniroot, then an I9660 partition for basic tar files of the OS…
Like this:
2,998,272 DEBUGGING
4,161,536 DEMO
3,219,456 GAMES
1,826,816 GRAPHICS
999,424 INSTALL
1,073,152 NETWORKING
7,815,168 OPENWINDOWS_DEMO
9,748,480 OPENWINDOWS_FONTS
23,756,800 OPENWINDOWS_PROGRAMMERS
34,316,288 OPENWINDOWS_USERS
925,696 RFS
327,680 SECURITY
1,409,024 SHLIB_CUSTOM
524,288 SUNVIEW_DEMO
1,884,160 SUNVIEW_PROGRAMMERS
2,727,936 SUNVIEW_USERS
4,104,192 SYSTEM_V
729,088 TEXT
49,152 TLI
7,872,512 USER_DIAG
29,638,656 USR
622,592 UUCP
6,103,040 VERSATEC
Which is kind of funny seeing how some BSD derived OS’s still keep some of these package names alive.
Anyways, the problem is that I tried to use \\.\d: for the cdrom, and booting didn’t work at all. I even tried reading an ISO from the CD, but all it ended up doing was skipping to the ISO9660 part, and dumping that, ignoring the slices, giving me this:
243,599,360 sol14.iso
So after googling around, trying to at least find a way to back up this CD (it was a souvenir from Japan!) I found someone mentioning to backup their Solaris CD, they had to use the “readcd” program.
Well, I’d never explored that much with the cdrtools, but behold there is a readcd program that’ll dump an entire CD out!
So running it with –scan-bus to find your CD drive…
readcd -scanbus
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) ‘HL-DT-ST’ ‘BDDVDRW GBC-H20L’ ‘1.B8’ Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
We can go on to dump a full image of the CD.
readcd -dev=0,1,0 f=sunos.iso
Which now gives us a much larger ISO image…
329,605,120 sunos.iso
Sadly it crashes on bootup… But on Win32 it’s a lot better then not reading *ANYTHING* at all!
ok boot disk1:d -vs
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0:d File and args: -vs
Boot Release 4.1.4 (sun4m) #2: Fri Oct 14 11:07:52 PDT 1994
Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Boot: Romvec version 3.
root on /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0:d fstype 4.2
Boot: vmunix
.Size: 868352…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………+2319136+75288 bytes
Statistics:
–edit
I should also add that Qemu’s CDROM (like 99% in the world) are fixed block, while SUN (and other vendors) had these CD ROM’s that could change block size… So in Qemu you have to use the DISK driver vs the CDROM driver….
ie use -hdb sunos.iso instead of -cdrom sunos.iso
Qemu Sparc snapshot getting better!
Thanks to Artyom Tarasenko‘s tireless work on the Sparc MMU, DMA, SCSI It’s not possible to install some versions of Solaris, and boot others to single user mode!
Heck, even the NeXTSTEP 3.3 boot program goes ahead and loads up..
However this is all done without a graphical console, as the sparc rom’s dont understand the framebuffer that Qemu emulates…
qemu-system-sparc.exe -nographic -monitor null -serial mon:telnet:127.0.0.1:23,server -bios ..\ss5-170.bin -M SS-5 -m 256 -hda ..\solaris.disk -startdate “2009-12-13” -cdrom \temp\cd46.iso
Running it is something like this. The key here is the lines:
-nographic -monitor null -serial mon:telnet:127.0.0.1:23,server
Which setup a serial port console you can just telnet into (for us Windows users).
This gets around all the errors like this:
chardev: backend “stdio” not found
qemu: could not open serial device ‘mon:stdio’: Result too large
Sadly my SunOS cd doesn’t seem to want to boot, and I somehow saved a copy of Solaris 8, but not 6..? Sigh.
ok
ok boot cdrom -vb
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@6,0:d File and args:
-vb
Size: 259712+54162+47510 Bytes
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-13 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Ethernet address = 52:54:0:12:34:56
Using default device instance data
vac: enabled in write through mode
mem = 262144K (0x10000000)
avail mem = 258322432
root nexus = SUNW,SPARCstation-5
iommu0 at root: obio 0x10000000
sbus0 at iommu0: obio 0x10001000
dma0 at sbus0: SBus slot 5 0x8400000
dma0 is /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000 (esp0):
esp-options=0x46
esp0 at dma0: SBus slot 5 0x8800000 sparc ipl 4
esp0 is /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000
sd6 at esp0: target 6 lun 0
sd6 is /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@6,0
root on /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@6,0:
b fstype ufs
obio0 at root
obio0 at obio0: obio 0x100000, sparc ipl 12
zs0 is /obio/zs@0,100000
obio1 at obio0: obio 0x0, sparc ipl 12
zs1 is /obio/zs@0,0
cpu0: FMI,MB86907 (mid 0 impl 0x0 ver 0x4 clock 1070 MHz)
# uname -aSunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
#
Which is all cool. And check the CPU, 1070Mhz! Don’t we all wish we had SPARC’s that fast!
I’ve even managed to install OpenBSD/Sparc! … But it crashed on booting.
Anyways it’s late, and thats it for now.
The real programmer’s Snoopy Calendar.
I was googling around last night waiting for this huge dataset to copy (lol more on that disaster later) when I came across this cute posting about real programmers.
And of course in there, every ‘real programmer’ has a Snoopy Calendar dated from 1969.
With a bit of googling, I come across this site that has the needed snpcal.for, snppic.for and snpcal.dat. Now granted this is from 1987, but hey, it’s as distant as even the original program from the 1960’s.
Now there is a lot of folklore about this program from the 1960’s along with an older version which can be found here, but sadly it wasn’t enough to keep the wikipedia page alive as they had no real sources backing it up prior to the 1980’s.
Anyways with a few minor tweaks, the code from the 1980’s will compiler on MS Powerstation Fortran, and that code will in turn compile via f2c!
So, for the few people that care about this kind of thing, or stumbled upon it, here it is:
Just take note that it’s made for a 132-column printer, which was a popular thing back in the day. Although I’m sure laser & various ‘jet’ printers can print this thing in portrait mode.
I’ve included the source that I changed, along with a win32 exe and the output (in MS-DOS text format) here.
If you want a more ‘modern’ version of the calendar, just edit the data file, you can easily find the star/stop portion in there (search for 1969!).
Next time I’m near a printer and nobody’s looking I’ll have to print one!
NetBSD 5.0.2 SPARC
I have to run, but in the meantime here a screen shot of something I just tried…
NetBSD 5.02 SPARC on Qemu
I didn’t even expect to get it that far…….
NetBSD 1.5.1 follow up
I figured I’d share what I had, and allow people to download my disk image, and for win32 users, it has all the bits to go…
Just extract THIS zip file, and then run the mips.cmd file, and you’ll be in NetBSD ARC/MIPS land in no time!
Other platforms will need to build Qemu 0.12.3 and use the mips 64bit little endian emulator to run the disk image…
NetBSD 1.5.1 – arc
Well… I was looking around for another OS that’d run on a MAGNUM (ie ARC MIPS in little endian mode), and I found that NetBSD supports the ARC Magnum, unlike OpenBSD.
Sadly it’s *VERY* touchy…. The current version 5.0.2 crashes when unpacking the distribution… However 1.5.1 runs! … kind of.
NetBSD 1.5.1 for the ARC has no install program… So I had to prepare a system partition with Windows NT, then boot that disk under the i386 qemu emulator with NetBSD 1.5.1, setup the disk, and unpack the distro.
From there it was a matter of rigging the ARC loader to boot up an ecoff kernel.
There were a few files in the /etc directory to ‘fix’ to allow normal booting (fstab/rc.conf) and to make sure there is no /netbsd in the root.. For some reason while extracting symbols for the ps tables and whatnot it CRASHES.
So far I’m having issues with the networking, but it is running!
I may have to do some more experimenting with this to see if later versions of NetBSD can get their networking going… The ‘big’ issue at the moment is the ethernet reports a MAC address of all zeros… While the same nvram file in Windows NT works just happily……..
Oh well, here is a screen shot!
NetBSD 1.5.1 ARC on Qemu 0.12.3
I guess it’s worth mentioning that once it boots up, it’s been stable enough for me to rebuild a kernel.. And the kernel even booted! (but transferring it out was such a major ordeal…)
Dungeon for NetBSD little endian MIPS
Oh, and of course it runs dungeon!