Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Swanson
Well, VMware guests can recognise that they're in a VM because the software contains a backdoor INT function, mainly used by VMware Tools for things like Shared Folders and host-controlled mouse cursors insides guests. I don't quite remember what the function was for VMware's backdoor, but you can

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Mark Williamson wrote: No, I got the impression that Fabrice was taking about virtualization the way VMware, old plex86, and vmbear (new FOSS x86 virtualizer in the works) do it. The x86 cannot be "virtualized" in the Popek/Goldberg sense, so there's a couple of fast emulation techniques

[Qemu-devel] Suppress debug log of sb16

2005-09-13 Thread Kazu
Hi, Attached patch suppress debug log of sb16. Regards, Kazu --- qemu-0.7.1.orig/hw/sb16.c Mon Jul 25 03:52:08 2005 +++ qemu/hw/sb16.c Mon Aug 15 16:24:18 2005 @@ -25,10 +25,14 @@ #define LENOFA(a) ((int) (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))) -#define dolog(...) AUD_log ("sb16", __VA_ARGS__) - /* #define

[Qemu-devel] Real hard disk drive for Win2k/XP host

2005-09-13 Thread Kazu
Hi, This patch supports a real hard disk drive by \\.\PhysicalDriveN (N=0,1,2,...) on Windows 2000/XP host. Windows 98/Me are not supported. You can also use slash like //./PhysicalDriveN. You can see a number in Administration Tools in Control Panel. This is not case-sensitive. It is necessary t

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
> >No, I got the impression that Fabrice was taking about virtualization the > > way VMware, old plex86, and vmbear (new FOSS x86 virtualizer in the > > works) do it. > > The x86 cannot be "virtualized" in the Popek/Goldberg sense, so there's > a couple of fast emulation techniques that are possibl

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jim C. Brown wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Jim C. Brown wrote: Fabrice had said that he > >wants kqemu to be able to do total virtualization (both kernel and userland > >bits); basically all the translation code of qemu would be left unused bu

Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu in 0.7.2 no longer boots Xen

2005-09-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jim C. Brown wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:37:58PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: 0.7.2 seems to have broken support for kqemu. You are using both qemu 0.7.2 and kqemu 0.7.2 right? qemu 0.7.2 introduced some incompatible changes and no longer works with older versions of kqemu.

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
> No, I got the impression that Fabrice was taking about virtualization the > way VMware, old plex86, and vmbear (new FOSS x86 virtualizer in the works) > do it. > > So it'll work w/o needing a 64bit chip. I hadn't seen vmbear, looks interesting... Full virtualisation on vanilla x86 would be rea

[Qemu-devel] Gdisk.exe failure - abort, retry, fail

2005-09-13 Thread penna
Hi, We are using gdisk.exe in order to format the HD in our WINXP ISO image of installation. The problem with GDISK.EXE is the _second_ execution of it. For example: A:\> gdisk /? (... it shows the help) A:\> gdisk /? It shows the message: Error reading drive A (<-

Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu in 0.7.2 no longer boots Xen

2005-09-13 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:37:58PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > 0.7.2 seems to have broken support for kqemu. You are using both qemu 0.7.2 and kqemu 0.7.2 right? qemu 0.7.2 introduced some incompatible changes and no longer works with older versions of kqemu. -- Infinite complexity begets in

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jim C. Brown wrote: > > >Fabrice had said that he > >wants > >kqemu to be able to do total virtualization (both kernel and userland > > >>bits); > >basically all the translation code of qemu would be left unused but the > >hardwa

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
On 9/13/05, Adrian Smarzewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > > I'm new to qemu and my question is simple and is probably due to my > > ignorance. If I compare qemu and vmware, there is a great deal of > > emulation speed differences. > > Did you try kqemu or qvm86? Yes, w

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Anthony Liguori
Jim C. Brown wrote: - If no, is it possible that one day qemu reaches the speed of vmware? qemu itself? Nope. kqemu/qvm86 don't have this limitation though. Fabrice had said that he wants kqemu to be able to do total virtualization (both kernel and userland bits); basically all the tran

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Alexandre Leclerc wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to qemu and my question is simple and is probably due to my > ignorance. If I compare qemu and vmware, there is a great deal of > emulation speed differences. > > - Is it because of what qemu is? (i.e. it is

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.7.2

2005-09-13 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:45:29PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jim C. Brown wrote: > > If I understand this correctly, you have multiple processes displaying > to the same widget? > Currently, yes. The eventual goal is to manage multiple windows as well, so you can see more than one guest

Re: [Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Adrian Smarzewski
Alexandre Leclerc wrote: I'm new to qemu and my question is simple and is probably due to my ignorance. If I compare qemu and vmware, there is a great deal of emulation speed differences. Did you try kqemu or qvm86? -- Pozdrowienia, Adrian Smarzewski _

[Qemu-devel] About qemu emulation speed (a question) and supported OS

2005-09-13 Thread Alexandre Leclerc
Hi all, I'm new to qemu and my question is simple and is probably due to my ignorance. If I compare qemu and vmware, there is a great deal of emulation speed differences. - Is it because of what qemu is? (i.e. it is a full emulator of many platforms, etc. Meaning that vmware is probably only spec