Hi Guys,
I'm not a subscriber to the kvm mailing list, so please copy me in
your replies.
I've got an old image of an i486 disk running (I think!) Windows 3.1
which I want to bring up and play with, just to make sure I can use
it.
> file hda-caroline486.image
hda-caroline486.image: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP mbr;
partition 1: ID=0x6, active, starthead 1, startsector 17, 254983
sectors, code offset 0x33
I basically just dd'd the entire disk into a file. I can mount it
using a loop device and then examine the partitions, so I think it's
fine from that viewpoint.
My server is a Debian 5.0 box, running on AMD Quad Core CPU, 8gb of
RAM. I've got other KVM guests running just fine.
So I tried to use the following to boot the image:
> sudo qemu -no-acpi -no-hpet -cpu 486 -hda hda-caroline486.image -m \
128 -vga std -vnc quad:44
And I get the following in a VNC screen:
Starting SeaBIOS (version 0.5.1-20100616_222654-volta)
Booting from Hard Disk...
HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.07 - 02/14/92
Extended Memory Specification (XMS) Version 3.0
Copyright 1988-1992 Microsoft Corp.
Installed A20 handler number 2.
64K High Memory Area is available.
MICROSOFT Expanded Memory Manager 386 Version 4.44
Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986, 1991
_
And that's it. So it looks like I'm missing a driver or something
here. Do I need to define keyboard and mouse for this sucker? The
hardware is long gone, but I think it was a Gateway. Total guess.
Thanks for any hints,
John
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