Comments on: Qemu

By: Federico Segato

Federico Segato — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:26:09 +0000

Hello everyone, and best wishes from Italy.
I hope I’m not writing an inappropriate comment, sorry if I do.
For nostalgic fun, I have a VM where, with a qcow and two partitions, I emulate an MS-DOS 6.22 plus Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on the primary, and a Windows 98 Second Edition on the logical, switching from one system to another with the Windows bootloader.
I have tried different versions of Qemu, including those hosted on this site, so far I have obtained the best results with a 2_9_94 (accel=hax) that I have been using for years to emulate Ubuntu (https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ 2017/qemu-w64-setup-20170824.exe) and with a 0_8_2 (https://web.archive.org/web/20061130051913/http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~kazuw/qemu- win/qemu-0.8.2-windows.zip) but …
With 2_9_94 and emulating a Cirrus PCI the well-known corrupted screen problem in WfW is present.
With 0_8_2 no display problems even in WfW but unfortunately in MS-DOS I lose the possibility of using the USBASPI.SYS DI1000DD.SYS combo to hook a fake USB disk (instead the fake USB disk works perfectly in 2_9_94 even in MS-DOS while only Windows 98 Second Edition hooks the fake USB disk into 0_8_2 LOL).
In your opinion, is a “cornea” transplant possible? That is, force the 2_9_94 to use the vgabios-cirrus.bin of the 0_8_2?
I tried the simplest way, in a folder on my Windows host and with the CMD MKLINK command I mixed the various original BIOS binaries pointing to Qemu but…
0_8_2 crashes, while 2_9_94 remains with a black screen and <>.
Or, but I think it’s more complicated, give the 0_8_2 a BIOS that can manage the fake USB disk?
I’m open to suggestions, and thank you all for your time and attention.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:20:15 +0000

In reply to jouwnaam.

Actually I did have some of my old stuff downloaded with me, and I did upload them:

https://archive.org/download/vpsland-qemu-archive

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:46:39 +0000

In reply to jouwnaam.

Yes its been a great loss to me. I’ve been in exile for months and it had remained up, I sadly had nowhere to back it up to, or any way to get a copy of it was it was substantial.

I still have hope I can get the physical machine shipped to me but it’s dependent on my being able to get citizenship somewhere to stay long term.

By: jouwnaam

jouwnaam — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:17:14 +0000

your vpsland server is dead, and along with it, all the rare emulators and os images that were on it

you should mirror them to archive.org (such as the nextstep daydream emulator thing and the previous emulator)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 08 May 2017 01:28:32 +0000

In reply to DV. What are you trying to do? It's command line driven. You may find virtual box, or VMWare easier to use.

By: DV

DV — Sun, 07 May 2017 16:59:55 +0000

How the heck do I use this?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:49:33 +0000

In reply to Wolf101. As far as I know right now it won't even fully run the SRM ROMS, much less an operating system. There is that ES40 emulator which apparently can run OpenVMS to some degree.

By: Wolf101

Wolf101 — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:07:19 +0000

Have you, or indeed anyone else tried using the qemu alpha emulation to install OpenVMS? If so, how did it go?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:40:58 +0000

In reply to Guillaume. It may be the keyboard input... I'm assuming you've got the -k en-us (or whatever it is, it changes so often) set?

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:16:49 +0000

Hello,

I have read your excellent wiki page about installing NeXTStep on Qemu. Everything works but I still have one problem.
With Interface Builder, you need to use Alt+Clic when you want to create a bloc of repeated objects (for example a Button matrix from one button to create a kind of keyboard).
That combination Alt + clic doesn’t work.
Have you heard about that problem?

Thanks, guillaume.