Category Archives: QEMU

Qemu 1.0 binaries for Windows (Win32)

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EDIT: Nobody should use these binaries, there was a critical error (well there still is) in how a core procedure is compiled, and it results in major instability, instead use Qemu 1.0.1).

Well after lots of fights, it finally built!  I booted MS-DOS and ran Quake (with sound!)…  I’ve added in my control+alt+d for a CAD, and control+alt+r for reset, and configured the sound for adlib, sound blaster & GUS.

The i386/x86_64 binaries are here.

All other systems are here.

For the most part this is completely untested, but it did boot MS-DOS….  All the DLL’s that you need should be in the archives.  7zip is what I used to keep them small.

Disk access seems to be still slower than hell, so instead of the typical

-hda bla.disk

You will want to do change it to:

 -drive file=bla.disk,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,cache=writeback

Although if it is a qcow2

 -drive file=bla.disk,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,cache=writethrough

Qemu 1.0 dependencies….

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So because of some circular dependancies, and me trashing my toolchain I have just re-installed MinGW.  I thought I’d share this little adventure to get Qemu 1.0 to actually configure… Naturally as time goes by these links will get stale and die. sorry about that.

First get

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.28/glib-dev_2.28.8-1_win32.zip

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.28/glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip

This will almost get you a working glib/pkg-config environment.  The catch is when you go to run it, you’ll get some error about not having intl.dll … Well, where the heck does that come from?

$ mingw-get install mingw-utils

After installing this package do *exactly* like this:

cd /mingw/lib
a2dll libintl.a -o intl.dll -liconv
mv -iv intl.dll /mingw/bin/

Special thanks to Fragrant Memories, I don’t think I’d have ever figured that out. Also don’t forget to build zlib/SDL with –prefix=/mingw …

I’ll just update this as the build continues….

Good news, it’s compiling!  I’ve even added in the easy reboot.

Qemu enters the 1.0 RC phase

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One of the new and exciting features of 1.0 is TCG, which will allow Qemu to run on *any* host!

TCG (Tiny Code Generator) is a code generator which translates code fragments (basic blocks) from target code (any of the targets supported by QEMU) to a code representation which can be run on a host. TCI allows running QEMU on any 32 or 64 bit host, whereas QEMU without TCI supports only the most important host architectures (including x86, arm, mips, ppc, s390 and sparc).

I need to break down and start some builds…

Qemu 0.13 for GNS3

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So I’ve been playing with GNS3 here and there and the #1 thing that is annoying is of course how difficult it is to deal with the CAD problem (Control Alt Delete) esp when dealing with anything Windows NT based.  So I’ve taken my SDL keyboard patches, “fixed” the NE2000 (although enabling that is another story) and made my build available here.

Of course the real work, adding in the UDP networking was done on the GNS user forums, but it sure is nice to be able to quickly login to a test Windows 2000 AD setup…  I don’t know if it’ll interest the rest of you but I thought it was pretty neat.

Now what would be really cool would be to take the ‘Ethernet hub’ of GNS3, and make it into a service, alter Qemu to generate a random MAC and make a real distributed network…. Another thing would be a way to take SLIRP and merge it with the NetUDP to make some kind of real world ‘NAT’ type thing.  Although I guess I could always add some extra flags to the Qemu process to include a second NIC and set it up for ‘user’ networking … something like “ -net nic,model=pcnet,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1” to add an AMD PCNet card that talks to the ‘user’ or NAT networking component…

A super simple network with OS/2 Qemu!

Quake & QuakeWorld for MS-DOS update

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So after a year+ of inactivity I’ve spent some time with Quake (netquake) and QuakeWorld for MS-DOS.  I had modified it to support the WatTCP stack for MS-DOS, allowing you to play over the internet with any MS-DOS PC with a packet driver.

After a good bit of prodding and playing with DJGPP I’ve updated everything to include some new tweaks for a malloc ‘bug’ (Quake assumes the memory is clean, which under DJGPP it isn’t) some limit increases (zone to 1MB, and increases in max edicts, models & sounds), and forcing the sound to 22050Hz.  The source code is now here.  As much as it pained me, I built it with this DJGPP under MS-DOS (On Qemu) and I’m keeping it here, as gcc 3 & 4 are incapable of building a working WatTCP or Quake.

Another big fix for QuakeWorld is that it now can run in 640×480, 800×600, and even 1024×768 if your video card is VESA 2.0 compatible!!!

Basically you can just replace the default exe’s in a Quake1 install and go from there.  If you do not have quake at all, you can always look for the shareware version.  QuakeWorld will require the commercial version for what it is worth. I’ve found it runs best with 32MB of ram.  I don’t know if that is even an issue in this day & age.  Quake1 will run in 16, but I have a feeling QuakeWorld runs in VM (thanks to CWSDPMI) and it does say it is using 32MB … Because I clear the ‘zone’ before Quake runs there may be a 30 second to 1 minute pause.  This is to be expected, just hold tight.

QuakeWorld at 640x480

QuakeWorld at 800x600

QuakeWorld at 1024x768

You can download either Quake.exe or Qw.exe.

Thanks to [hci]maraakate, for the hints on what to update where, and of course the testing on a ‘real pc’!`

SoundBlaster 16 settings for VirtualPC & Qemu

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Granted for Qemu I manually add in the Adlib card (why isn’t it there??) but for MS-DOS you almost always have to set the BLASTER environment variable… And I always forget what it is…

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T5

Which translates to an IO base of 0x220, IRQ 5, DMA 1 and High DMA 5.  Because it has a high DMA channel, it is a Sound Blaster 16, and specified by T5.  If you want to play MS-DOS games in Qemu, be sure to compile in the adlib..

Or at least this works for running Quake & Doom … 🙂

GNS3

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Inspired from this video, I have to admit I’m really impressed how GNS3 can now network between dynamips router instances, and Qemu … So I grabbed an old IOS version from a 7200, and fired up Qemu with NT 4.0 and built a super simple network.  Because it won’t let you hotplug cables between hosts, I figured I’d just go ahead and add switches everywhere.  So bottom line is that I setup a super simple network, and I can ping/telnet to the routers from NT.  This could even be used to build more complicated networks, but as always people seem to get more excited about doing ‘pings’ through the network, and overlook actual USER traffic…

GNS3 uses a custom build of Qemu 0.11.0, which I may have to feel the need to modify it for some control-alt-delete fun, along with making sure the ISA NE2000 is on an agreeable port/IRQ.

 

 

Qemu 0.15.1 just released!

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From the site:

0.15.1

  • (commit) Version 0.15.1
  • (commit) qed: fix use-after-free during l2 cache commit
  • (commit) sdl: Fix termination in -no-shutdown mode
  • (commit) Fix termination by signal with -no-shutdown
  • (commit) Add support for finding libpng via pkg-config.
  • (commit) Check for presence of compiler -pthread flag.
  • (commit) Allow overriding the location of Samba’s smbd.
  • (commit) Fix linker scripts
  • (commit) Fix install(1) usage to be compatible with OpenBSD’s install(1).
  • (commit) Fix qjson test of solidus encoding
  • (commit) configure: Copy test data to build directory
  • (commit) monitor: fix build breakage for !CONFIG_VNC
  • (commit) monitor: fix build breakage with –disable-vnc
  • (commit) Fix forcing multicast msgs to loopback on OpenBSD.
  • (commit) user: Restore debug usage message for ‘-d ?’ in user mode emulation
I haven’t even tried to build it just yet…  One day I’m hoping someone does the hard work for a win64 version… 🙂

Yet another update for Novell Netware 3.12

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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!  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.  Its a damned shame, but hell at least there is something out there that can run Novell Netware!!!