qemu and Slackware64-current, Windows 98SE as a guest ( Partly solved! )
 

Hi. okay with you all? :-)

I used qemu (qemu-0.9.1-i386-2_SBo) with Windows98SE as a guest, but since the last Slackware-current update of this version of qemu no longer works ...more precisely after "Mon Apr 8 06:58:48 UTC 2011" Update ...

Then installed the version "qemu-0.12.5.tar.gz" of Slackbuils, but this If the mouse is not detected in Windows 98 ...
I also installed the version of the Alien "qemu-0.10.0-i486-1alien" without success ...

Windows 98SE worked very well with the version of qemu-0.9.1-i386-2_SBo!

I know the mouse is not detectable in Windows 98SE is a Bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/521994

Any comments would be welcome

Thanks

ps: I also have not had success in Slack 32. I use on a daily 64-bit version of Slackware .

The only thing that occurs to me is why would anyone want to run windows 98 on anything?! Not very helpful I know but you did say any comment would be welcome!:)

I run Windows 98 and 95 to play a lot of my older games. There are a lot of fun games like 3D pinball and 3D minigolf that run only on those operating systems. I've never tried QEMU on Linux to run them though. I usually use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on Windows. However, one can run them in VirtualBox without the Guest Additions (no screen resizing and no mouse integration).

My suggestion is to see how well VirtualBox meets your needs to run Windows 95 and 98 on Linux.

The best virtual support to run Windows 95 and 98 is with Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7. You can use mouse integration and all the other features of Virtual PC. If you want to fully support Windows 95, use the Guest Additions from Virtual PC 2004 in the Guest OS while using Virtual PC 2007 SP1 in the Host OS.

FYI, reading comment 13 on the ubuntu bug linked, I just tried on -current with qemu-0.14.0 and mouse is working fine on my 98se.qcow2 :)

The OP's issue may be that he is not able to use later versions of qemu. After qemu-0.10 the support for the kqemu kernel accelerator was dropped. Which means, if you have an older CPU (without hardware virtualization support) you have to stick with an older version of qemu (so that you can use kqemu to get acceptable performance in the virtual machine).

Eric

Thank you guys for the answers :-)

In the tests that I got:

My main question is because the version "qemu-0.9.1-i386-2"
I wore, no longer works, after I updated (Tue Apr 8 06:58:48 UTC 2011)
Slackware 64-current?

Another question is: How do I know which libs, dependencies, are used by a program installed on Slackware? Is there a command for that?

I know I should know more than I know in Linux, but I use linux without academic pretension, so consider myself newbie.

Many thanks

HI there afreitascs

I use VirtualBox 4 and have win98 SE installed with scitech display doctor for the display settings
I can resize and adjust the display .

Regards
Lawrence

Hello Alien Bob

I have the Athlon X2, which supports hardware
virtualization (AMD Athlon X2 5200),and I used qemu without kqemu .

at zasavage

Qemu is light, but VB is heavy, although I have also installed VB.
Out of curiosity, I'll test on Win98 VB. I did not know Vb gave support for Windows 98


many thanks :-)

In that case, you should be using qemu-kvm instead.

Eric

Thanks I'll test here ...

Hi

I installed qemu-kvm-0.14.0-x86_64-1alien.tgz

So I typed:

then obtained:

I tried to create a new guest and got the same thing :

Any comments are welcome

many thanks

for Eric's qemu-kvm build, you need also the dependency vde.

I installed "vde" worked, but I got this:

I have installed qemu-kvm
many thanks

ps:Remember that when using qemu 0.14.0 (not qemu-kvm) everything works fine, but the mouse gets very slow.
Using qemu version 0.9.1 everything worked fine, the mouse was not slow. With the upgrade from Slackware current, qemu 0.9.1 stopped working ... :-(

that is because you have to load the kvm modules in your kernel (if not you use only full software emulation - much slower).
try a
in console (as root) before launching qemu (should be kvm_intel, if you got a cpu with intel virtualization extensions).
to have it automatically loaded at boot

Before thanks for this tip :-)

Well
Now windows starts ,then freezes on a black screen
(see image 1(4.png)). Note, (GKrellM) that the large CPU activity ...

Also, if I try to start a new installation, after creating
"QEMU disk image" successfully, crashes when trying to detect cdrom (boot given
by fd0 (Start computer wich CD-ROM support) (see image 3 and 4 attachment (7.jpg and 8.jpg) (high CPU activity))

many thanks