How to get Windows to do dialup for Linux

["Victor Schneider" <vtailor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to see something, get qemu and the kqemu accelerator and use the 
damnsmalllinux iso _file_ in a Windows directory with qemu and kqemu to run 
DSL as a guest operating system full screen under Windows on a _modern_ 
laptop with all the usual Linux drivers problems.

When running DSL under qemu, you do _not_ want to use the "dma" kernel 
option, since qemu is already doing the dma acceleration and turning it on 
in the kernel slows things down noticeably (20-30%) when you do _dialup_ 
networking under the guest operating system. Here are some qemu options you 
need to do dialup under Linux (also works for things like Ubuntu):

"qemu -cdrom *.iso -L . -kernel-kqemu -std-vga -localtime -soundhw all -m 
256 -net none -serial COM3 -boot d -hda linux.img.sys" etc.

(The .sys suffix for qemu harddrives is experimental. For some reason, 
physical swapfiles do not seem to add anything these days, whether via qemu 
or in a direct CD boot.)

Oh yes, the other method for doing Linux under qemu as a guest of Windows on 
a brand-new laptop is to omit "-net-none -serial COM3", and dialup your ISP 
under Windows first, or turn on the wifi, or plug in to the ethernet, 
_before_ invoking qemu to boot up Linux