Re: qemu-img convert is TOO slow

2023-04-24 Thread Supratim Sanyal
On 4/24/2023 7:11 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: If the filesystem has been used for a while, there may be many "deleted" sectors which are not zeroed? Some type of fsck (or nowadays possibly "trim") can zero all unused sectors of the image, before conversion? I use zerofree, or simply dd

Re: FreeBSD Acceleration

2022-06-09 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Acceleration applied if your guest is also Intel, and is not available any more. I run a bunch of HP and Sun emulators fine on FreeBSD. No accelerator needed, and all benefits of a fast slick low-overhead host that *BSD is. - Supratim > On Jun 9, 2022, at 2:37 PM, Spencer Heywood > wrote: >

Re: Can you recommend some interesting abandonware OS that will run on qemu?

2022-01-22 Thread Supratim Sanyal
On 1/22/22 1:07 PM, Ottavio Caruso via wrote: Apart from DOS and its clones, of course. Most recent toys on my qemu host: - Windows NT 4.0 MIPS - Solaris 2.6 on SPARCstation-5 - Debian-4 Etch for SPARC on SPARCstation-5 - FreeBSD SPARC 64 bit on SUNW/UltraSPARC-IIi - NetBSD SPARC 64 bit on

Re: qemu and windows 11

2021-10-15 Thread Supratim Sanyal
On 10/15/21 7:42 AM, Pascal wrote: hi everyone, here is the "environment" used (but it still doesn't work :-() : off topic and irrelevant, but if your objective is to try Windoze 11, the insider preview works fine on Oracle Virtualbox which does not emulate TPM either. Haven't tried qemu.

Re: Trying to Connect

2021-10-12 Thread Supratim Sanyal
this has been beaten to death by Astr0baby. Google is your friend. On 10/12/21 2:16 PM, think3mm wrote: Using the following on a RHEL7 VM to start the emulator: ./qemu-system-hppa -boot d -serial telnet::,server -drive if=scsi,bus=0,index=6,file=./hpux.img,format=raw -D /tmp/foo

Re: How to bind a DHCP server to a bridge interface inside QEMU?

2021-09-19 Thread Supratim Sanyal
reimplementing all the functions provided by FOSS router/firewalls would be interesting and exhausting. --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Sep 19, 2021, at 2:58 PM, Charlie Turner wrote: > > Hi, > My goal is to have a virtua

Re: Issues to set up a tap network backend

2021-04-11 Thread Supratim Sanyal
This sets up a VDE switch with taps for Qemu or whatever - FreeBSD but Linux should be pretty close. I apologize if this is completely irrelevant, just throwing this out. https://supratim-sanyal.blogspot.com/2019/09/freebsd-virtualbox-host-vde-networking.html Best, Supratim --- Supratim

Re: termination (DOS)

2021-04-10 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Interesting question. Did you try ATXOFF.COM? --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Apr 10, 2021, at 5:14 AM, Tomas By wrote: > > Hi all, > > What is the easiest way to stop a DOS session in QEMU? > > I want to have an A

Re: OT - 24-pin dot matrix printer emulator (nlq etc.)

2020-10-27 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Will - this is an awesome pointer. I will take 86box for a spin, I wasn't aware of it. I will report back, probably after the weekend. Regards, Supratim On 10/27/20 9:05 AM, Supratim Sanyal wrote: Hi Possibly off-topic, but does anyone know of or use some sort of a Epson or whatever 24-pin

OT - 24-pin dot matrix printer emulator (nlq etc.)

2020-10-27 Thread Supratim Sanyal
understand escape sequences for NLQ fonts etc. Thanks Supratim -- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet

Re: Periodic disk flushing, getting a bit anoying.

2020-08-02 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Have you ruled out the usual suspects - lack of memory and physically bad hard disk? --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Aug 2, 2020, at 4:31 AM, Z wrote: > > First, hello to the list. and second on to why i am here. >

Re: Running qemu guest in background

2020-05-16 Thread Supratim Sanyal
> On May 16, 2020, at 10:25 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > > >Use screen for text, xpra for graphical emulated machines - assuming FreeBSD > >/ Linux host of course. > > > > > I guess xpra is for remote displaying. No? xpra is a virtual X server - you can launch graphical X clients in it

Re: Running qemu guest in background

2020-05-16 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Use screen for text, xpra for graphical emulated machines - assuming FreeBSD / Linux host of course. --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On May 16, 2020, at 6:18 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > > Hi > > I want to start a qemu vm in

Re: Qemu for Pi-Top

2020-04-28 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Supratim --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Apr 28, 2020, at 8:27 AM, jm Greeves wrote: > > Hi there, > > I write you asking for your detailed help as our IT ability is exceptionally > limited. > > Two years ago, I boug

Re: Unaligned data reference

2019-12-31 Thread Supratim Sanyal
wrapper its being run in. OK, so it looks likes its an issue with the udev daemon code ported to Debian for the HP PARISC processor. Will check with the maintainers of this port. Thanks, and wishes for an awesome 2020. Supratim On 12/31/19, Supratim Sanyal wrote: Hi, I am getting flooded

Unaligned data reference

2019-12-31 Thread Supratim Sanyal
reference (code 28) at 42269503 Thanks, Supratim Sanyal

AIX 7.1

2019-12-12 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Hi, What is the status of AIX 7.1 support on the PPC64 emulator? I read in a few places the maintainers are actively working on it. Regards, Supratim

Re: QEMU-img convert question

2019-12-02 Thread Supratim Sanyal
On 12/02/2019 03:23 PM, Carson, Jay B wrote: - Basically, if I put a packet sniffer between my computer and the internet, would the packet sniffer find even one packet that was sent or received as a result of executing the listed command? Interesting General Dynamics would be using QEMU

Re: [EXTERNAL]: Re: QEMU

2019-11-05 Thread Supratim Sanyal
ystems Engineer PaperSolve, Inc. 268 Watchogue Road Staten Island, NY 10314 Your random quote for today: Practice is the best of all instructors. -- Publilius -Original Message- *From*: Supratim Sanyal <mailto:supratim%20sanyal%20%3csupra...@riseup.net%3e>> *To*: &quo

Re: [EXTERNAL]: Re: QEMU

2019-11-04 Thread Supratim Sanyal
options might be reduced to FTP from your windows host (assuming you can get to your guest over some network setup equivalent of tap) or burning CD images to attach to your guest, etc. --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Nov 4, 2019, at 1:34

Re: QEMU

2019-11-01 Thread Supratim Sanyal
nd scp files over. My preference would be to do a proper bridge from your NIC and a tap interface for qemu's networking so that the Solaris VM is a full fledged node on your network. -- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet

Re: 5.25" floppy access for XENIX guest under qemu-system-i386

2019-10-29 Thread Supratim Sanyal
guide me on how to do this? Thanks Supratim --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Oct 29, 2019, at 4:57 AM, Pascal wrote: > > hi, > if you do tar tvf on your .img file, then this file is not a disk image, but > a tar file ? > >>

5.25" floppy access for XENIX guest under qemu-system-i386

2019-10-28 Thread Supratim Sanyal
Hi all, I have a basic XENIX 2.3.4 installation running great under qemu-system-i386 version 3.1.1/FreeBSD 12-RELEASE. I recently obtained XENIX devsys 1.2MB floppy disk images and am a bit stuck trying to get QEMU to present 5.25" 1.2MB floppies to the XENIX guest. The "change floppy0"