MINIX3 on Qemu on Ubuntu 8.0 hardy
Jeenu
This is my first mail to the group. I would like to learn some OS
internals and hence decided to learn MINIX3. I downloaded the ISO
image from MINIX3.
I'm trying to boot MINIX3 on Ubuntu 8.0 hardy with qemu. I used the
command
qemu -cdrom /path/to/MINIX3.iso -m 256 -boot d
I got a window displaying MINIX3 boot up, and for a choice. I entered
1, and it displayed a table sort of thing, along with the names of
processes. But after that, I see it as hung, and the no more messages
appear on the screen.
I'm not sure what's going on
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Jeenu
Jeenu
best emulator for running MINIX3 on Linux; which one is easy to
configure and get a kick start.
Rafa Vargas
> I got a window displaying MINIX3 boot up, and for a choice. I entered
> 1, and it displayed a table sort of thing, along with the names of
> processes. But after that, I see it as hung, and the no more messages
> appear on the screen.
Hi Jeenu,
Minix3 and Qemu > 0.8.2 in Ubuntu are known to be buggy. It just does
not work. Try VMWare instead (VirtualBox is based on Qemu and also
does not work).
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Jeenu
> Jeenu wrote:
> > I got a window displaying MINIX3 boot up, and for a choice. I entered
> > 1, and it displayed a table sort of thing, along with the names of
> > processes. But after that, I see it as hung, and the no more messages
> > appear on the screen.
>
> Hi Jeenu,
Hi Rafa,
>
> Minix3 and Qemu > 0.8.2 in Ubuntu are known to be buggy. It just does
> not work. Try VMWare instead (VirtualBox is based on Qemu and also
> does not work).
>
Thanks for the information. I did try the bochs (not sure whether
bochs and VirtualBox are the same); and that was giving a lot of
PANICS. More over that was too heavy in configuration.
I think I should now download VMWare. I have one question though -- Do
I need VMWare server to create a custom VMWare disk Instead of the
MINIX pre-installed VMWare one from the site? I'm not keen to create
my own, but this just out of curiosity.
> P.S: If you would like to subscribe to this group using RSS, check out
> this:http://rafavargas.es/minix/and you won't have to read all the
> spam we've been watching recently.
Thanks for this too.
Jeenu
Al Woodhull
> I think I should now download VMWare. I have one question
> though -- Do I need VMWare server to create a custom
> VMWare disk Instead of the MINIX pre-installed VMWare
> one from the site? I'm not keen to create my own, but
> this just out of curiosity.
My experience has been that, starting with a pre-installed
Minix virtual machine I have been able to install newer
versions of Minix without a need for the VMWare server --
the free player was adequate.
Caveat: I have done this for text-based installs only, I haven't tried
to use the X-Window system on a virtual install of Minix.
- Al
Rafa Vargas
> I need VMWare server to create a custom VMWare disk Instead of the
> MINIX pre-installed VMWare one from the site? I'm not keen to create
> my own, but this just out of curiosity.
I use VMWare Player and create virtual machines at http://easyvmx.com/
for free (it is legal).
Hope it helps.
Jeenu
> > I think I should now download VMWare. I have one question though -- Do
> > I need VMWare server to create a custom VMWare disk Instead of the
> > MINIX pre-installed VMWare one from the site? I'm not keen to create
> > my own, but this just out of curiosity.
>
By the way, I installed VMWare and I could see MINIX boot up :)
Thanks everyone for your inputs
Jeenu