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On July 28, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On July 28, 2008, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 20:19 -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > Have you guys tried qemu with the kqemu or kvm modules? Otherwise use
> > > VirtualBox instead, its MUCH faster.
> >
> > I have kvm installed and set it to enabled, but seems to make no
> > difference (maybe because I'm emulating a 32-bit system but have a
> > 64-bit kernel?)
>
> Should work fine. I have kvm installed on my 64bit desktop and run 32bit
> os'es in it just fine.
>
> > VirtualBox does just use qemu code I thought, and it was
> > a bit confusing to use when I last tried it, e.g. I couldn't figure out
> > how to access the virtual HD from linux with it.
>
> kvm is based on qemu, VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization solution, and
> its gui is rather easy to use, and any disks associated with a guest shows
> up as an IDE disk in the guest.
Oh i forgot, kvm depends on intel's and AMD's hardware virtualization
extensions. So only kqemu is an option if you want any kind of speed up with
qemu on an older machine.
> > I figured out how to use gdb btw - have to run qemu with the option to
> > use a virtual terminal as serial port, then run:
> >
> > gdb <com1 >com1
> >
> > And then you can control it from the virtual terminal. (Remote debugging
> > dosn't work because djgpp has no gdbserver - if just someone would have
> > told me that in advance :P)
> >
> > Anyway, the traceback is just the one from the allegro.cc thread, the
> > bank switching crashes because the ->seg member of the BITMAP is 0 which
> > apparently is an invalid value to put into the DS register. And I have
> > no idea how to go on, especially with the long compile time (including
> > make depend it's actually more than an hour). I'm not even completely
> > sure all the relevant ASM code (VESA bank switching) has been translated
> > to C yet - someone remembers about that?
> >
> > --
> > Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
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