Re: Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image

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>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Avi> On 10/18/2011 02:59 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
>> 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.  

Avi> What's the host kernel version?

I thought I was running the stock Debian version, but I'm actually
running my own 3.1.0-rc4 kernel.  A bit out of date, but I don't
remember seeing any major KVM breakage in the later part of the
3.1-rc# series.

  Linux version 3.1.0-rc4-custom (john@quad) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian
  4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 31 12:12:32 EDT 2011

>> 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

Avi> No need to sudo.

>> 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.
>> 

Avi> It's probably a bug in kvm.  Try collecting a complete trace as in
Avi> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing and posting it here, maybe
Avi> something will jump out.

Avi> Also try out -no-kvm.

Thanks, I'll give this a try tonight when I'm home again.

John
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