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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,16:14 QUOTE

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kqemu is the accelerator. It is not required.
If you so choose you can install the kqmeu into your windows system.
We use Qemu only in its non-install method. Thus any pendrive with dsl-embedded should work on any windows systems without any installation to the host windows os

Even though KQEMU errors out, I can still start RC2 if I remove the -audiohw sb16 line from the bat file...I tried setting it to other options (from the QEMU docs) but any time that line is in the file, it crashes the  startup routine when it gets to "Uncompressing Linux..."

I haven't installed it on my pen drive yet, as I want to make sure it is working correctly. The QEMU docs didnt help much.

Its weird because the old version of QEMU with RC1 works fine. I am starting to believe it is a QEMU issue and not a DSL issue...

I had the same problem, however before making that change Qemu worked fine on my laptop running XP Pro without any errors.  Then after I tried runing on my desktop pc also with XP Pro it crashed.
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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,16:39 QUOTE

I have noticed a difference between the Qemu in DSL 2.3rc2 and the one I downloaded directly, even though they are both version 0.8.0. When running DSL 2.3rc2 I get an additonal DOS window that opens and displays the following message:

Could not open '\\.\kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated

However, on my computer running XP SP2 it sill runs fine. If you want to try out the same version of QEMU I am using and see if it fixes your problem with having to remove -soundhw sb16 download it here:

http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

Hope this helps,

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,16:43 QUOTE

desnotes,

That is the location that it was downloaded from.
It also works fine on my XP system.
Would you compare the Qemu files on the one with the extra window?

Thanks,
Robert
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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,17:55 QUOTE

After analyzing the file included with DSL 2.3 rc2 and the one I downloaded I went back to the web site and found out that they recompiled the source with kqemu (if you do not have kqemu installed, include -no-kqemu in the batch file.

At the same time kqemu was included, support was added for the DirectSound, FMOD and AdLib sound cards using the file fmod.dll. This causes the extra DOS window to open and from I can find, there is not way to exclude it. This is probably causing the problem with having to exclude the -soundhw sb16 in computers that may not support the new addition.

Both of these versions are considered 0.8.0 with the only difference in the zip file name and directory name.

I personally believe they should not have kept the version the same with this type of change but it appears to be acceptable in the Qemu community as other support sites are doing the same thing.

Unfortunately, I could not find anywhere where the previous zip file is available. I have it but currently do not have a working FTP server. If there is somewhere I could upload it to make it available Robert, email me at desnotes@gmail.com.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,20:23 QUOTE

desnotes, thanks for the update.

Sometimes it can become difficult to support and integrate with another project like Qemu. What I get from reading their site is that the -kernel option, like we use, seems to be more for testing. I now it would be much more simple from as DSL developer's standpoint is to only support the -cdrom image option. That gets these Qemu updates off my back. But doing so, we lose alot of nice integration and easy access to the many DSL boot options that are needed.

Regarding sound...

I see that one can use the option
-soundhw sb16,es1370,adlib

Specifying all three now supported by Qemu.
Their site says it is selectable by Windows control panel?
Not being much of a Windows user, I am at a loss to test this.

If this solves the other users issues regarding sound then OK.

Otherwise I suppose I could drop the -soundhw option for the final 2.3 release and include in the readme a link to Qemu's site regarding sound.

Or change to the -cdrom option and then it becomes similar to the vmplayer version of DSL.

Testing & Feedback on these Qemu related issues requested.
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