Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:22 PM, wch-t...@house-grp.net <wch-t...@house-grp.net> wrote: > > I have a host machine (Dom0) running OpenSUSE xen kernel version > 3.11.10-21.1.
I applaud you for trying such an emulator with FreeDOS. Even I don't have the energy to try every emulator under the sun anymore. > I am using the xl tool stack to the extent I can. I have installed freedos as > a guest. > > I am encountering errors such as > > "Error reading from drive C: DOS area: write-protection violation attempted > (A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?" Probably unrelated, but I sometimes get a critical error when doing tab completion under FreeCOM (0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap) with DOSLFN enabled. I don't know the details, but I vaguely assumed it was because there is no physical A: drive on this PC. I think I even get it with DOSEMU. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I never knew really how to debug or isolate it, so I just ignored it. I'm no kernel guru, so I have no idea. Maybe it's actually a shell (FreeCOM) bug. Obviously plugging in a USB floppy drive (which I have) could maybe prove it (if the error goes away), but I've never been that interested these days. (Which is saying a lot because I care more about floppies than 99% of people.) I know that's not directly helpful, but that's my first (naive) guess, though probably wrong. > immediately after boot but a C prompt eventually comes up after a few "A"s. > > I have an MSDos 6.22 vm which runs without complaint. It could just be that MS-DOS ignores it entirely, i.e. silently fails. Though more likely, you're correct, it's probably a rare FreeDOS bug. You could try a different FreeDOS kernel (e.g. 2036 or 2038) and/or a different shell (0.82pl3 or 4DOS). If it's still a bug, at least you've confirmed that it's not unique to what you have now. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/FreeCOM/082pl3%20%28use%20xmsswap%20for%20386%2B%20PC%29/ BTW, some emulators are just buggy. Most people, even developers, don't seem to test very well except with a limited number of modern OSes, usually Windows or Linux. So it's not true that it couldn't be Xen's fault. > The xl configuration files are almost identical. Here is the freedos config > file: > > boot = "cd" > disk = [ "file:/v/v.../freedos_1.1_n01-hda.raw,hda,w", > "file:/v/../freedos_1.1_src.iso,hdc:cdrom,r" ] I'm not much help here. I don't know what any of this means. While I am on Linux now, it's an old PuppyLinux (Lucid, aka 10.04 or such), so I don't probably have a good way to install or build latest Xen to test. Maybe someone else will chime in, so I'll put this link here: http://www.xenproject.org/help/documentation.html > This is the type of error I would see on a damaged floppy drive or one with > the write protection slot covered, or on a failing/failed C drive; but > freedos installed on this image file without any trouble (after I got the > order of operations right). So this error is on every boot, after AUTOEXEC has finished running? > If images are permitted, I can send a screen shot of the display. Dunno about images being allowed. Probably better to host them elsewhere and link to them indirectly. > Since > 1) I am running as root (and therefore should not encounter any > permissions problems) and > 2) MSDos runs without trouble and > 3) freedos installed and is obviously running > > I am assuming xen is OK and that my configuration file is OK, but could I > have a timing issue? > > Is the CPU too fast? ( I-7 @ 2200GHz)I have seen some notes which mentioned > throttling back a cpu. I tried caping the CPU at 20% which did not seem to > help. Dunno. It's probably not a timing issue, but I think FreeCOM does try to do something weird for the internal BEEP command. So who knows, anything's possible. > If someone has some idea as to the cause of and cure for this behavior, I > would like them to share it with me. I don't hold much hope for getting much sympathy upstream, but if you're courageous enough, you could visit their IRC and ask someone there. http://xenproject.org/irc.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
