Re: [AD] 4.3.10+ branch

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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.

> 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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