[Users] What settings are needed to run windows 98 on a VM?
I wanted to make sure I understand. This guy comes to me with windows98 and says he must run this machine. I don't really care about this machine but this is what he wants.. Is there any options else then XEN that will run windows98 on a VM? Thanks, Eliezer
It looks like this (kind of) works on ovirt already. I was able to install win98 from cdrom on a VM with IDE disk. There are some issues: - The VM tends to hang during boot, choosing step by step confirmation (my first suspect was javasup.vxd) seems to fix this, this doesn't happen if I use the "-no-kvm" option with a local kvm install. - No network (no e1000 for win98 it seems) this can probably be fixed with a hook to add a ne2k_pci nic - Slow graphics, this can probably be fixed with a hook to use the cirrus adapter in stead of qlx or vga Working cli kvm start: qemu-kvm -m 512 -hda /var/tmp/win98.qcow2 -no-kvm -cdrom /var/tmp/win98se.iso -vga cirrus Some more info here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=774745 On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il> wrote:
I wanted to make sure I understand. This guy comes to me with windows98 and says he must run this machine. I don't really care about this machine but this is what he wants.. Is there any options else then XEN that will run windows98 on a VM?
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Thanks, I have used kvm with command line in the past but I an using now virt-manager. In virt-manager I am almost sure that I will need to enter it somewhere but I am not sure where it would be. I have changed the CPU type but I needed to change the domain type from "kvm" to "qemu". Using this line <domain type='qemu'> instead of <domain type='kvm'> Which I was unable to understand how to change using the virt-manager menus. Thanks, Eliezer On 21/01/14 16:52, Sander Grendelman wrote:
It looks like this (kind of) works on ovirt already. I was able to install win98 from cdrom on a VM with IDE disk.
There are some issues: - The VM tends to hang during boot, choosing step by step confirmation (my first suspect was javasup.vxd) seems to fix this, this doesn't happen if I use the "-no-kvm" option with a local kvm install. - No network (no e1000 for win98 it seems) this can probably be fixed with a hook to add a ne2k_pci nic - Slow graphics, this can probably be fixed with a hook to use the cirrus adapter in stead of qlx or vga
Working cli kvm start: qemu-kvm -m 512 -hda /var/tmp/win98.qcow2 -no-kvm -cdrom /var/tmp/win98se.iso -vga cirrus
Some more info here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=774745
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il> wrote:
I wanted to make sure I understand. This guy comes to me with windows98 and says he must run this machine. I don't really care about this machine but this is what he wants.. Is there any options else then XEN that will run windows98 on a VM?
Thanks, Eliezer _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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