QNX 6.2.1 in vmWare

[Pascal Simler]

Did not work for me. Is it possible ?

Thanks
Pascal

[vampire bovine]

Pascal Simler wrote:

used to work for me in icky 4 bit color, the newer versions crap out in
boot up though.

[ed1k]

In article <b5lcjb$rjl$1...@inn.qnx.com>, sim...@wanadoo.fr says...

Generally speaking, no, it's not possible because QNX is in unsupported list of VM Ware. I was told
about great results of QNX in Virtual PC, but it's another x86 environment emulator... if you're
interested visit http://www.connectix.com/

Best regards,
Eduard.

[Boris Trubitsin]

Hi.
I testing QNX 6.2NC with VMware 4 RC1 (build 4320) right now and it working
fine and stable
till this moment. It even go to suspend and returns in functional state
(tested on find / -name qnx command execution).
Only one bad thing: crttrap still leads to virtual machine crash with known
bug ID (so maybe they resolve this in release version).
So it works MUCH better than under VMware 3.2.

All the best
Boris

"Pascal Simler" <sim...@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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[vampire bovine]

ed1k wrote:

anyone try bochs?

[Boris Trubitsin]

Addition:
Photon also works (at least in VGA mode)

"Boris Trubitsin" <b...@genphys.phys.msu.su> wrote in message
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[Pascal Simler]

I had vmWare 3.1 and QNX 6.2 did not work at all. But I was surprised that
my 10 years old QNX 2.20 booted from the floppy drive without the
speed_patch utility and I could install it on the virtual hard drive even on
my fast 2GH processor !! ).
I installed vmWare 4 Beta and now I can start QNX 6.2 in console mode. When
I try to start photon I recieve Not Implemented error BugNr=21105 by running
crttrap.
How did you make photon run ?

Pascal

"Boris Trubitsin" <b...@genphys.phys.msu.su> wrote in message

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[Bobo]

I'm Running it on Virtual PC now. (Actualy this is Outlook Express on WinXP
but QNX is running.)

[liug]

Boris Trubitsin <b...@genphys.phys.msu.su> wrote:
> Hi

>> I try to start photon I recieve Not Implemented error BugNr=21105 by
> running
>> crttrap.
>> How did you make photon run ?
>>

> Well, now I running Photon in SVGA :)

> 1) edit /etc/system/config/graphics-traplist - comment there second line
> so you should get:
> devgt-iographics -dldevg-svga.so -I0 -d0x15ad,0x0405
> #devgt-iographics -dldevg-vesabios.so .....

> 2)Then run crttrap (or ph). It should detect some acceptable modes without
> crashing virtual machine.
> If you run ph it displays dialog for choosing resolution and so on.
> I left it at vga 16 colors at this stage.

> 3)In Photon setup desired video-mode via Photon Display Configuration.

here is frank vmware newsgroup:

You can use photon with the svga driver if you make a new file
"/etc/system/enum/oem/vmware" containing:

device(pci, ven=15ad, dev=0405) # VMware PCI SVGA (FIFO)
device(pci, ven=15ad, dev=0710) # VMware LEGACY SVGA
cfgfile(fname, /etc/system/config/graphics-traplist)
echo(devgt-iographics -dldevg-vmware.so -I$(index) "-d0x$(ven),0x$(dev)", $(fname))
echo(devgt-iographics -dldevg-svga.so -I$(index) "-d0x$(ven),0x$(dev)", $(fname))

of course, until QSSL or someone comes out "devg-vmware.so", you
are stuck with the SVGA driver. but at least crttrap and ph will
run. You can have high resolution with 8 bit or 16 bit high color.
Everything is very slow though. If you ever used QNX's svga driver
(even without vmware), you will know what I mean.

On the other hand, if you use XFree86 in qnx (check
http://www.sf.net/projects/openqnx ), you will be able
to have acceralated vmware graphics driver. "XFree86 -configure"
will autodetect that. Graphics is MUCH faster than the photon SVGA.

Good luck!

Frank