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MinGW-w64

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Well after yesterdays x86_64 excitement, I figured I’d take a look in the windows area to see about the 32bit vs 64bit performance on Windows…

I know this isn’t the ‘best’ test as I’m using VMWare Fusion on OS X and running Windows XP x64 sp2 (the 2007 edition, not the 2003 one).

If anyone wants to know how to get a 64bit gcc on windows, this is the best formula I’ve come up with so far.

First download a build of mingw-w64-bin_x86_64 from sourceforge… Right now I’m using a ‘Personal Build’ from sezero_20101003, because… it’s recent, and I would imagine a personal build has some hope of actually working.

I downloaded that, and extracted to the root of the C drive. Then I renamed the mingw64 to mingw.

Next up, I downloaded and installed MSYS 1.0.11, and installed that. I selected the default options, and of course specified my mingw is installed in

C:/mingw

After that, I install the MSYS DTK 1.0, again with default options.

The final part is some kind of editor, I like VIM but it’s… involved to download as the default package ‘vim-7.2-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma’ is in a 7zip compatible archive that needs a bit of tweaking to get a tar file out of. I can provide it here in gzip format, that you can simply extract within the msys command prompt in the /usr directory.

Now with all that done, you should be in business!

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc44-svn/configure –host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 –target=x86_6
4-w64-mingw32 –disable-multilib –enable-checking=release –prefix=/mingw64 –w
ith-sysroot=/mingw64 –enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ –enable-libg
omp –with-gmp=/mingw64 –with-mpfr=/mingw64 –disable-nls –disable-win32-regis
try
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.4.5 20101001 (release) [svn/rev.164871 – mingw-w64/oz] (GCC)

 

But will it run Dungeon?

What is also cool, is that this build of mingw includes gfortran, which is a Fortran 95 compiler with various 2003 & 2008 enhancements. So for the heck of it, I’ve rebuilt the makefile from dungeon-2.5.6 and tweaked the machdep.f to at least call the ITIME function to get the current time. The resulting archive runs pretty well!

Windows XP x64 - dungeon

Yes, it runs! And without a *32 meaning this is a 64bit binary!

 

Onward with SIMH

So going back to SIMH as my benchmark, here is the vax780 with -O0/-O0

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 18
This machine benchmarks at 27777 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 20
This machine benchmarks at 25000 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 19
This machine benchmarks at 26315 dhrystones/second

Which comparing it to the native x86_64 build is pretty good considering I’m running this in a VM (VMware Fusion!). Now the same test with -O1/-O1

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second

Which is pretty good! Now for the finally with -O2/-O1

Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 12
This machine benchmarks at 41666 dhrystones/second

Which is interesting in that there is no appreciable difference in the -O2/-O1 vs the -O1/-O1 build. Although I kind of expect different results on a native machine. If anyone else cares to test, I’m going to make available the whole project here. This includes the source and the pre-built binaries.

Unzip it on a win64/win32 machine and it should be somewhat straightforward to build / run. You can alter the makefile and change the primary CC flags from O0 to O1 or O2 if you so wish… just run make and it’ll generate a vax780.exe . Then in the test directory you can bench your exe like this:

$ make
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_cpu.o VAX/vax_cpu.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_cpu1.o VAX/vax_cpu1.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 –
DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_fpa.o VAX/vax_fpa.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘op_cmpfd’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:210: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:210: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:211: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:211: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘op_cmpg’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:233: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:233: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:234: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:234: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘vax_fadd’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:371: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:373: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:386: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘unpackd’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:525: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:525: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘unpackg’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:540: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:540: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘norm’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:548: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:548: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:548: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:549: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:549: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:557: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘rpackfd’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:574: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c:575: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
VAX/vax_fpa.c: In function ‘rpackg’:
VAX/vax_fpa.c:597: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_cis.o VAX/vax_cis.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_octa.o VAX/vax_octa.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 –
DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_cmode.o VAX/vax_cmode.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64
-DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_mmu.o VAX/vax_mmu.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_sys.o VAX/vax_sys.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_syscm.o VAX/vax_syscm.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64
-DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_stddev.o VAX/vax780_stddev.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DU
SE_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_sbi.o VAX/vax780_sbi.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_mem.o VAX/vax780_mem.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_uba.o VAX/vax780_uba.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_mba.o VAX/vax780_mba.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_fload.o VAX/vax780_fload.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE
_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax780_syslist.o VAX/vax780_syslist.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 –
DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_rl.o PDP11/pdp11_rl.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_rq.o PDP11/pdp11_rq.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_ts.o PDP11/pdp11_ts.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_dz.o PDP11/pdp11_dz.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_lp.o PDP11/pdp11_lp.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_tq.o PDP11/pdp11_tq.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_xu.o PDP11/pdp11_xu.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_ry.o PDP11/pdp11_ry.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_cr.o PDP11/pdp11_cr.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_rp.o PDP11/pdp11_rp.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_tu.o PDP11/pdp11_tu.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_hk.o PDP11/pdp11_hk.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT
64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o PDP11/pdp11_io_lib.o PDP11/pdp11_io_lib.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 –
DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o scp.o scp.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX
-I PDP11
scp.c:470: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:470: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:470: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:470: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:471: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:471: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:471: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:471: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:473: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:473: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:473: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:473: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:474: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:474: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:474: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:474: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:475: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:475: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:475: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:475: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:476: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:476: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:477: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:477: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:478: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:478: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:479: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
scp.c:479: warning: integer constant is too large for ‘long’ type
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_console.o sim_console.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_fio.o sim_fio.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADDR6
4 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_timer.o sim_timer.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_A
DDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_sock.o sim_sock.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADD
R64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_tmxr.o sim_tmxr.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADD
R64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_ether.o sim_ether.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_A
DDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o sim_tape.o sim_tape.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DUSE_ADD
R64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O0 -c -o VAX/vax_cpu2.o VAX/vax_cpu2.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 –
DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -O1 -c -o VAX/vax_cpu2.o VAX/vax_cpu2.c -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64
-DUSE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11
gcc -o vax780 VAX/vax_cpu.o VAX/vax_cpu1.o VAX/vax_fpa.o VAX/vax_cis.o VAX/vax_
octa.o VAX/vax_cmode.o VAX/vax_mmu.o VAX/vax_sys.o VAX/vax_syscm.o VAX/vax780_st
ddev.o VAX/vax780_sbi.o VAX/vax780_mem.o VAX/vax780_uba.o VAX/vax780_mba.o VAX/v
ax780_fload.o VAX/vax780_syslist.o PDP11/pdp11_rl.o PDP11/pdp11_rq.o PDP11/pdp11
_ts.o PDP11/pdp11_dz.o PDP11/pdp11_lp.o PDP11/pdp11_tq.o PDP11/pdp11_xu.o PDP11/
pdp11_ry.o PDP11/pdp11_cr.o PDP11/pdp11_rp.o PDP11/pdp11_tu.o PDP11/pdp11_hk.o P
DP11/pdp11_io_lib.o scp.o sim_console.o sim_fio.o sim_timer.o sim_sock.o sim_tmx
r.o sim_ether.o sim_tape.o VAX/vax_cpu2.o -I. -DVM_VAX -DVAX_780 -DUSE_INT64 -DU
SE_ADDR64 -I VAX -I PDP11 -lwinmm -lwsock32

Administrator@JASON-4AC1B1EA0 /usr/src/simh
$ cd test/

Administrator@JASON-4AC1B1EA0 /usr/src/simh/test
$ ../vax780.exe bsd42.ini

VAX780 simulator V3.8-1
loading ra(0,0)boot
Boot
: ra(0,0)vmunix
199488+56036+51360 start 0x11a0
4.2 BSD UNIX #9: Wed Nov 2 16:00:29 PST 1983
real mem = 8384512
avail mem = 7073792
using 102 buffers containing 835584 bytes of memory
mcr0 at tr1
mcr1 at tr2
uba0 at tr3
hk0 at uba0 csr 177440 vec 210, ipl 15
rk0 at hk0 slave 0
rk1 at hk0 slave 1
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15
ra0 at uda0 slave 0
ra1 at uda0 slave 1
zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224, ipl 15
ts0 at zs0 slave 0
dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15
dz1 at uba0 csr 160110 vec 310, ipl 15
dz2 at uba0 csr 160120 vec 320, ipl 15
dz3 at uba0 csr 160130 vec 330, ipl 15
root on ra0
WARNING: should run interleaved swap with >= 2Mb
Automatic reboot in progress…
Tue Nov 8 03:44:30 PST 1983
Can’t open checklist file: /etc/fstab
Automatic reboot failed… help!
erase ^?, kill ^U, intr ^C
# ./d2;./d2;./d2
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 19
This machine benchmarks at 26315 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 19
This machine benchmarks at 26315 dhrystones/second
Dhrystone(1.1) time for 500000 passes = 18
This machine benchmarks at 27777 dhrystones/second
# sync
# sync
# sync
#
Simulation stopped, PC: 80001629 (BNEQ 80001630)
sim> q
Goodbye

Administrator@JASON-4AC1B1EA0 /usr/src/simh/test
$

The d0,d1,d2 are the dhyrstone benchmark compiled with -O0, -O1, and -O2 respectively. This gives you a chance to observe various optimizations in the GCC 2.7.2.2 for the VAX.

Running Windows 2003 r2 x64 on Qemu 0.9.0

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This took me a LOT longer then it should have to figure out. So for anyone else wanting to run the 64bit versions of Windows on Qemu (I havent tested Vista/2008/7 yet) Only version 0.9.0 will work.

Because sourceforge is still giving me errors I’ll provide direct links…

Anyways to buidl Qemu you’ll need a MinGW/MSYS enviroment. The new stuff works on Vista x64 so that’s good to me, as it’ll run natively.

You’ll need the following files:

MinGW-5.1.4.exe
MSYS-1.0.11-rc-1.exe
msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz

First, install MinGW by choosing the ‘current’ version, then check the following options:

*MinGW Base tools
*G++ compiler
*MinGW make

Allow it to instal into c:\MinGW

Next install MSYS with the default options. Then it’ll ask you the following, respond as I have:

Do you wish to continue with the post install? [yn ] y

Do you have MinGW installed? [yn ] y

Please answer the following in the form of c:/foo/bar.
Where is your MinGW installation? c:/mingw

Install msysDTK with the default options.

Now you should be able to run the msys CLI
Start -> run -> mingw -> msys -> msys

Let’s expand out the win32api & mingw32 dev updates:

cd /mingw
tar -zxvf /c/install/qemu-build/w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
tar -zxvf /c/install/qemu-build/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz

Now your ‘gcc -v’ should return something like this:

Reading specs from c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure –with-gcc –with-gnu-ld –wi
th-gnu-as –host=mingw32 –target=mingw32 –prefix=/mingw –enable-threads –dis
able-nls –enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java –disable-win32-registry –d
isable-shared –enable-sjlj-exceptions –enable-libgcj –disable-java-awt –with
out-x –enable-java-gc=boehm –disable-libgcj-debug –enable-interpreter –enabl
e-hash-synchronization –enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)

Ok, now let’s build the prerequisits, zlib & SDL.

zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz

cd /
mkdir -p /usr/src
cd /usr/src
tar -zxvf /c/install/qemu-build/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

Now SDL.

SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz

tar -zxvf /c/install/qemu-build/SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz
cd SDL-1.2.13
./configure
make
make install

Now we need to tweak some things that MinGW seems to have issues finding in the /usr/local path.. I’m sure there is a better ‘fix’ but hell, this is quick & cheap!

cd /mingw/include
ln -s /usr/local/include/zconf.h .
ln -s /usr/local/include/zlib.h .
ln -s /usr/local/include/SDL .
cd /mingw/lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libSDL.a .
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libz.a .
cd /bin
ln -s true.exe texi2html.exe
ln -s true.exe pod2man.exe

Ok, now we just need the source to Qemu 0.9.0…. It’s becoming something RARE which is weird considering just how compatable this version is… So I’d recommend keeping a copy in email or something.

qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz

cd /usr/src
tar -zxvf /c/install/qemu-build/qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz
cd qemu-0.9.0
./configure –target-list=x86_64-softmmu
make

Now instead of the usual Qemu 32bit x86 emulator, you’ll get qemu-system-x86_64.exe in the x86_64-softmmu directory. Running it is just like the regular Qemu. So first I’m going to create a 16GB disk to boot from like this:

qemu-img create -f qcow win64.disk 16G

*NOTE if you have any issues where it just doesn’t work, use the qemu-img from here. I’ve had issues with the one that I’ve built, but the emulator works…. go figure.

Now let’s boot from the disc:

$ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1024 -L pc-bios/ -hda win64.disk -cdrom en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_x64_cd1.iso -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -boot d

Now if you don’t have the ISO files, and have physical discs don’t fret! It’s easy to have Qemu point to them… Let’s say your CD-ROM (DVD/BR disk) is D: then it’s just a matter of running:

$ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1024 -L pc-bios/ -hda win64.disk -cdrom \\.\d: -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -boot d

Easy, right? Remember the -m flag for memory, otherwise your VM will run in a TINY 128mb of ram.. And it’ll be insanely SLOW.

And then you’ll get this!

The first screen.. It doesn’t sound all that 64 bit does it?


Now we are talking! It certainly is the 64 bit version… It reminds me of the PowerPC/MIPS/Alpha builds where once the Kernel has loaded, it’s all Windows NT..


Select your partition, and let’s format away!


Time for the file copy… This will take a while.


Finally!

Then it’ll reboot, and you’ll get the happy bootloader!


Bootloader in action..


I haven’t timed it, but I suspect it’ll be longer then 39 minutes.

As you can see with the right version of Qemu it’s trivial to get Windows 2003 r2 x64 running… It’s good for doing some .net 32/64 bit testing… Which reminds me of another tidbit..

Some things in .net land will NOT work on IIS running in 64 bit mode. You’ll have to throw the switch to get a 32bit .net on IIS. The good news though is that this can take advantage of 2GB for a normal exe, and if you tag it, 3GB to under 4GB of ram.. So the 64bit version is not without waste.

%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i -enable
iisreset
CScript “%SystemDrive%\InetPub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs” set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
iisreset

I did verify that this would get sharepoint to run on 2003 x64.. As I always feel better trashing a VM then real iron…

And don’t forget the flexibility of the -redir command on Qemu to allow you to redirect ports into the VM…

Say you want to use terminal server into your VM, you can redirect say port 1000 into the vm by adding:

-redir tcp:10000:10.0.2.15:3389

Then it’s a simple matter of using a terminal server client to localhost:10000

I hope this clears up how easy it is to build your own Qemu, and of course how to run something other then the ‘normal’ 32bit version of Qemu.