Hi,

This is my first post in this community, and I'm also a new to kvm-qemu, so I appreciate your support/help here including reference to any documentation/guide

I'm trying to use kvm-qemu to create a virtual machine from an old "RHEL 2.1" iso image (for a medical device from 2004).
This iso has an automatic installation script to install the OS on a old "HP workstation" (IDE CDROM and IDE Hard disks) with some special PCI cards (like "8 ports RS232 ports PCI cards" and other "image processing" PCI cards)

What I did:-
- created a virtual machine and run the auto-install script
- the auto-install script report "successful"
- I can login to the shell as a root
- BUT when I run "startx", I got "no screens found" error"
- I think it seems the QXL, Spice display and VirtIO drivers are not installed, or there is some kind of "H/W lock"

I need your help to :-
- Where to find old H/W Driver for RHEL 2.1? are the RHEL new drivers "back comparability"? ie. can i use the new drivers?
- references to how to install device drives on old RHEL
- How to emulate the Hardware of an old HP Workstations?

Thanks in advance

So:

• You do not; the drivers that you have available on that ISO are the ones for the image/software you purchased. If the devices are working, then they obviously are backwards compatible. Are you actually having any problems.
• You find them in the documentation...good luck, though, since that's VERY old software. Try Red Hat support, since that's RHEL but its unlikely they'll be able to assist
• You don't, and if you can you actually need to tell us what the device you need to emulate is.

Try *NOT* logging in as root, since starting X as root can be problematic. This sounds like you're trying to use a proprietary image for something it's not designed for...if you bought this, contact the people you bought it from, or buy the updated version.