After I was able to run OS/2 2.11 on VMware with PCI drivers, I thought I’d try KVM.
![KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failure EAX=00000720 EBX=00000050 ECX=fee10050 EDX=00400780 ESI=d02f004c EDI=ff3f0000 EBP=00000d88 ESP=00000d72 EIP=00006725 EFL=00013202 [-------] CPL=3 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0047 00080000 00000f9f 0010f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] CS =d517 1aa20000 0000672d 0000ff00 DPL=3 CS16 [CRA] SS =0017 00020000 00000fff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] DS =bfcf 17f90000 0000033d 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] FS =0000 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 GS =bfff 17ff0000 00000fff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] LDT=0028 7be57000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0010 ffe1f6e7 00000067 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy GDT= 7c7e5000 00001fff IDT= ffe201e0 000003ff CR0=8001001b CR2=00080000 CR3=001b3000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=ca 76 0f 8b ca eb 0b 03 7e 22 8b ca 3b cb 76 02 8b cb 2b d1 <f3> ab 0b d2 75 ed 2b c0 c3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00](https://virtuallyfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/KVM-OS2-crash.png)
OS/2 2.11 crashing on KVM
No go. Â Also Qemu 2.1.2 on Linux didn’t fare much better. Â Must be something about HPFS and raw disk images. Â The funny thing is that even once a disk became corrupted, I quit Qemu, restore the disk, and start again, and it’s still behaving like it’s corrupt. Â Qemu 0.15.X has been the most stable branch I’ve found to run OS/2, but it’s so obsolete now.
it’s a shame nothing other than Linux runs on the Linux Runtime for Linux
It really is. Especially when Qemu started out as being quite versatile.
But we live in the Windows/Linux world
I suggest taking a look at http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org – it will show that QEMU can run more stuff than Linux.
I’m a bit pissed off that all these bugs are never reported upstream. In this case, this seems a bug related to 16-bit code.
Well I went to report issues with Netware & Qemu and the best I got was an offline acknowledgement but nobody really cared.
I run OS/2 2.0 in Qemu right now, It’s not like I’ve never heard of it before.
Also where is the Qemu user community? The only forum died years ago and I haven’t heard peep since.
Well, everybody scratches his itch. I’m working on fixing Second Reality right now for example.
The QEMU community for x86 emulation is definitely lacking, but SPARC is well alive for example. Perhaps everyone’s hiding behind their own blog…