Running Xenix under Qemu

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I know that there are still quite a few Xenix installs out there in
the field, and a lot of this falls under the 'dont break it until its
broken' thing but as many of you know VMWare, VirtualPC, bochs & Qemu
are incapable of running Xenix.

Or so you thought, its the floppy driver that is broken. Anyways if
you make a disk image of an existing Xenix disk, Qemu will happily
boot it!

Not to be a major blogwhore, but all the details are available here:

http://virtuallyfun.blogspot.com/2007/05/running-xenix-on-qemu.html

Remember that Qemu currently is limited to IDE (st506) disks, so SCSI
people will probably have a bit more tweaking? Or I imagine if they
keep the st506 components in their kernel they ough to be ok. I'd
definatly make disk images of your boxes....

We all know how Xenix really doesn't like "big disks"....