What about people who want to leverage the ‘cloud’ for ancient/legacy systems..?  No doubt I’d imagine there would even be a call for that kind of thing.  I mean hell I still run Exchange 5.5 at home, are there other people/companies that would want to continue running their old software, but instead of doing it a home, run it in a real data center?
Anyways, I’m looking forward to Proxmox / VE 2.0, they’ve even dropped a beta.
I was hoping to do more with this, but things are going other ways in life. Â Anyways a while back I had touched on xv6, a MIT teaching tool and semiport of Unix v6 to the i386! Â The best part about it, is that it is SMALL…
I’ve been playing with it the last day on the latest version of Qemu and hit a snag with its SMP support (yes it does have that!) so I played with it, and couldn’t figure it out so I had to turn it off.. It is something ACPI related, and probably along the reason why Windows x64 doesn’t run on new Qemu either..
I’ve built the cross compiling environment needed (A bare elf compiler/linker/assembler) and managed to smash enough of it into a single directory that you won’t need MinGW installed, but can rather invoke ‘build.bat’ which will compile link, dd the disk image, and launch Qemu.
I’ve had trouble with mkfs so… you’ll have to live with a prebuilt root image.
If you want to build your own cross compiling toolchain, there is a good guide here on the OSWiki. Â Naturally you’ll want my previous post on some snags I ran into on MinGW if you do choose that as your target environment.
What I’d love to do is port newlib, and see just how useful this xv6 could become.. Â I would imagine adding signals (well beyond kill) may allow things like bash 1.x to run, and maybe gcc itself.. Which would be cool.
You can download my work here. Â Check it out, it’s cool!
rm -f collect2.exe gcc -DCROSS_COMPILE -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o collect2.exe collect2.o tlink.o hash.o intl.o underscore.o version.o obstack.o -ladvapi32 ../libiberty/libiberty.a collect2.o: In function `handler': C:\MinGW\msys.0\src\gcc-2.95.3\gcc/collect2.c:527: undefined reference to `kill' collect2.o: In function `scan_prog_file': C:\MinGW\msys.0\src\gcc-2.95.3\gcc/collect2.c:2269: undefined reference to `pipe' C:\MinGW\msys.0\src\gcc-2.95.3\gcc/collect2.c:2292: undefined reference to `fork' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [collect2.exe] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gcc-2.95.3/gcc' make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
Ugh, isn’t that annoying? Well it turns out from the mailing list…
The mingw32-hosted GCCs does not need ‘collect2.exe’ hence
set USE_COLLECT2= nothing (empty) in the <gcc_obj_dir>/gcc/Makefile
This needs to be fixed in GCC mainlne.
Regards.
Nitin.
And the other half….
fixincl.c:316: error: `SIGQUIT' undeclared (first use in this function) fixincl.c:316: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once fixincl.c:316: error: for each function it appears in.) fixincl.c:323: error: `SIGALRM' undeclared (first use in this function) fixincl.c: In function `internal_fix': fixincl.c:808: warning: implicit declaration of function `pipe' fixincl.c:816: warning: implicit declaration of function `fork' fixincl.c:845: warning: implicit declaration of function `sleep' fixincl.c:860: warning: implicit declaration of function `fcntl' fixincl.c:860: error: `F_DUPFD' undeclared (first use in this function
Which is fixed by changing
STMP_FIXINC = stmp-fixinc
into
STMP_FIXINC =
Oops!
I guess it really comes as no surprise, his declining heath has been anything but a secret.  Like him or hate him, he shaped the industry into what it is today, and of course gave us the NeXT, saved apple, and forced developers both hardware & software to bend to his vision.
Check this out, using a modem on a Commodore 64.  This comes from gabucino.be
Or more so that is what I heard, as I cannot see anything…
Then a few more minutes of banging the refresh key…
Wow a SMP phone.  It is crazy how much computing power you can carry around in your hand!  I guess the cool thing about the iPhone 4s will be the whole ability to talk to it.  What is weird is that although all the processing for this is on the internet, they wont make the function available for the regular iPhone 4.  But this is such an Apple maneuver.
I managed to come across this link, which details some installation experience with Netware 3.12 on VMWare.
What is more interesting is that someone mentions that it’ll run on VirtualBOX!
So downloading their toolset and whatnot I proceed to install on VirtualBOX, and get a booting Netware 3.12 system using the ISADISK driver… I couldn’t find the IDEHAM thing but you get the idea, it actually WORKS!
Novell Netware 3.12 on VirtualBOX!
I’ve got to admit I’m really surprised! Â So for the heck of it I try the same disk image on Qemu and get…
CRASH...
The usual panic/crash after mounting a disk volume. Â Its a damned shame, but hell at least there is something out there that can run Novell Netware!!!
You can read it here.
It’s virtual routing, ala VRFs!
ouch, apparently even if you logout, you’ll still be tracked by sites that have the ‘like’ button…
Well that just sounds creepy so I’ll remove them from my site. Â I don’t think there was all that many people mentioning this blog on facebook outside of some brief ‘save officer spock‘ thing but at the same point I don’t want to participate in some larger big brother thing.
I just hope G+ doesn’t do anything like that (haha!)