DSL Embedded :: New build of QEMU



I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the newer builds of QEMU (since around Feb 2005, I think) now support a mouse with a scroll wheel and it works inside DSL embedded!


version 0.6.2:

 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 - user mode networking bug fix
 - undocumented FPU ops support
 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 - 'pidfile' option
 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 - added generic 64 bit target support
 - initial x86_64 target support
 - initial APIC support
 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 - Samba 3 support
 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)


QEMU 0.6.2 has been released for linux but for some reason there was never a release posted for Windows host OS.

However, you can get a recent win32 build which has this functionality.  The version number inside the build says version 0.6.2

I also noticed that the virtual PC's CPU is now a Pentium II instead of a Pentium Pro which should help with the performance of some programs inside the guest OS.

You can download it here:

http://www.freeoszoo.org/ftp/qemu/win32/daily/QemuInstall-20050411.exe

and then install it on a Windows computer.

Then open up explorer and go to this directory:

C:\Program Files\Qemu

and replace the old files on your DSL embedded drive/directory with these files:

C:\Program Files\Qemu\qemu.exe
C:\Program Files\Qemu\SDL.dll
C:\Program Files\Qemu\bios\bios.bin
C:\Program Files\Qemu\bios\vgabios.bin
C:\Program Files\Qemu\bios\vgabios-cirrus.bin
C:\Program Files\Qemu\bios\linux_boot.bin

Backup your old files in some other place if you want to be able to undo your changes.

Have fun!
Just curious, but has anyone besides me actually tried this?

I use embedded a lot and gaining additional speed plus a working scroll wheel for my mouse while running QEMU under MSWindows was a big improvement but that's just me.
Quote (cbagger01 @ April 22 2005,23:51)
Just curious, but has anyone besides me actually tried this?

I use embedded a lot and gaining additional speed plus a working scroll wheel for my mouse while running QEMU under MSWindows was a big improvement but that's just me.

Thanks for spotting this and pointing it out. I have launched DSL by running Qemu-062 from comike's qGui helper, and I confirm that the scroll mouse works for me. I don't know DSL well enough to know if there is a performance gain. When I do a '5-way' install onto a pen-drive shortly I will incorporate this version of Qemu and report back again. Obviously it would not be right to distribute an unstable daily build as part of a DSL-embedded package yet, but there will be advantages to upgrading as soon as these features become stable.

DeeJay
Yes, and it works great in Windows, well the scroll mouse does and it does 'appear' to be a little faster (hey I didn't exactly time anything) But since I love my scroll mouse this is wonderfull
Just curious if anyone knows where the linux binaries/source for 0.6.2 are
I can't seem to find anything but 0.6.1
The existing DSL embedded is running from a "daily build" back from 11/21/2004, so I wouldn't let that scare you too much.

qemu stability has never been 100% but I don't notice much difference in instability between my old qemu and this build.

If it proves to be problematic we can always try some of the other build and read the revision notes and mailing list to see if we can find a build between now and 2/2005 that has both scroll wheel support and relative stability.

But so far it seems fine to me.
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