In message <[email protected]> on 14 Oct 2009 list wrote:
> > On 14 Oct, David Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > list <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] Perhaps the most significant difference between VRPC and rpcemu is > > networking connectivity. rpcemu on Linux can be made to network and see > > the internet, > > Thanks. That's a very important difference for me, to go online in > rpcemu. I could get a linux machine and run my RISC OS apps on rpcemu. > Anyone here have any real world experience using RISC OS apps on linux > rpcemu? The last major update to Impact and various other pieces of software were developed on an Eee running RPCEmu while we were on holiday prior to the Wakefield Show. The main nuisance was that Zap crashed from time to time. StrongEd was more stable but less familiar to the operators! > Would rpcemu/linux connect with Iyonix via the router/modem? Yes, though irritatingly the simplest method does not appear to work. I just tried to set up access to our Iyonix as follows: 1. Ran MoonFish to share the Iyonix's drive using ShareFS. 2. Used the mount command in Linux to mount the drive as a directory under Linux. Everything OK so far, and the files visible to the Linux filer. 3. Set up an EmuFS drive in RPCEmu to point to the mount directory of the Iyonix drive. Sadly the directory appears empty. Clearly the way EmuFS is accessing files means that it is going to the underlying (empty) directory on the Linux machine, rather than the NFS mounted drive from the Iyonix. This is a nuisance. It's not the first problem I have had with EmuFS as I discovered that it hides files whose names begin with "." (i.e. "/" under RISC OS). I needed access to these files to use CVS under RISC OS with an EmuFS drive. I patched EmuFS to fix this (you have to avoid displaying "." and ".." in RISC OS of course). Unfortunately CVS still did not work for some other reason that I never got to the bottom of. Anyway, running MoonFish on the Iyonix, setting up networking in RPCEmu and running SunFish on the emulated machine would allow you to connect to the Iyonix's drive. The above method which did not work would have avoided the need to set up networking in RPCEmu. Networking support in RPCEmu under Linux is fiddly, but there are clear instructions. I have a little script I run after starting RPCEmu to do all the magic if I want networking enabled. Most of the time I don't. > Is a 1GHz EeePC with the N280 chip too little? Don't know. I've been using it on an Eee 900, and while the performance is slower than a StrongARM RISC PC it's acceptable for what I was using it for. -- Matthew Phillips Dundee _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
