QEMU

QEMU supports SMP!

Pavel — 2005-11-22T12:37:20+02:00

Fabrice Bellard implemented SMP support into QEMU. Please test it carefully (it was tested on GNU/Linux only - 2.4 and 2.6)!

Another interesting news - Paul Brook announced initial ARM system emulation. -----

"Evil genius" made it again!

Pavel — 2004-10-26T22:06:23+02:00

Fabrice Bellard (Joseph Stewart called him "evil genius") again made my day.

He created TCCBOOT: TinyCC Boot Loader. What is it? To make a simple demo, just fetch its demo ISO, burn it and see how TinyCC compiler compiles the Linux kernel and boots it.

Or you can run the complete process in Fabrice's qemu, of course. Just run

qemu -cdrom
tccboot.iso

and watch kernel source files being compiled and finally small Linux system boot. -----

QEMU is now able to boot GRUB's netboot

Pavel — 2004-05-22T21:50:50+02:00

Fabrice was online on IRC channel #qemu today and fixed several issues in Bochs' BIOS code and also in network card emulation inside QEMU and now it is possible to boot from GRUB floppy that is using netboot.

I'm now installing SuSE Linux 9.0 via AutoYast from NFS server on local network. Installation was started from floppy image that I use on real systems. GRUB successfully detected emulated NE2000 card, I assigned IP address, network mask, gateway and TFTP server and installation kernel and initial ramdisk were downloaded by TFTP.

Command line used to running the first part of installation was:

/tmp/QEMU/bin/qemu -boot a -fda /tmp/floppy.img -hda /tmp/hda.img \
                   -pci -user-net -m 128

After the first part is finished and system reboots, qemu exits and I have to run it again this time booting from disk:

/tmp/QEMU/bin/qemu -boot c -hda /tmp/hda.img -pci -user-net -m 128

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IRC channel opened

Pavel — 2004-05-20T23:30:47+02:00

I have registered #qemu channel on freenode.net and the discussion started almost immediately. QEMU is wonderful project - you should investigate it, really ;-)

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