Public bug reported: To whom it may concern,
As you may (or may not) be aware, QEMU is currently unable to readily install OS/2 Warp v3 (OS2W3) when asked for Installation Diskette 2 (http://www.claunia.com/qemu/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=132&iTestingId=138). QEMU 0.8.2 is the last known (to me) release to successfully install OS2W3. QEMU version 1.0 and the latest development version (as of 2012-01-05) have been verified not to work. A 'git bisect' reveals the issue was introduced during a migration to new removable media handling prior to the QEMU 0.9.0 release: There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 66c6ef7678939f2119eb649074babf5d5b2666f6 ea185bbda732dae6b6a5a44699f90c83e21f1494 19cb37389f4641d48803f0c5d72708749cbcf318 We cannot bisect more! For testing, the 'qcow' hard drive format was chosen due to QEMU 0.8.2 not having 'qcow2': $ qemu -M isapc -m 8 -localtime -soundhw sb16 -hda os2.qcow -fda install.img -boot a Of note, the ISA-only PC (isapc) was needed for QEMU 0.8.2 to 0.9.0. Otherwise QEMU hangs on start-up. Later versions of QEMU, segmentation fault when attempting to use '-M isapc' though boot correctly when using the default PC machine. The currently preferred method to install OS2W3 is to use another application (such as VirtualBox or VMWare), using a QEMU compatible disk image format. Once installed, QEMU can then run OS2W3; which it does phenomenally well. However, I've identified a way to install OS2W3 exclusively with QEMU, which may also shed additional light on the issue. 1. Using a relatively new QEMU (I'm on 0.11.1), install OS2W3 as you normally would on to a 'qcow2' hard drive. 2. When Installation Diskette 2 is reached, save a VM snapshot. 3. Quit QEMU and re-run, loading the VM state *with* the Installation Diskette 2 image in the floppy drive. $ qemu -m 8 -localtime -soundhw sb16 -hda os2.qcow2 -fda disk2.img -loadvm install The installation process will then continue as normal. This same method can be used once OS2W3 continues installing from it's GUI. Installation Diskette 7 experiences the same issue of not being recognised when inserted. Of note, as an unrelated issue, I was unable to save VM snapshots in QEMU 1.0 or later. Thank you for a fantastic emulator. cheers, multitude ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912983 Title: Unable to install OS/2 Warp v3 past disk 2 Status in QEMU: New Bug description: To whom it may concern, As you may (or may not) be aware, QEMU is currently unable to readily install OS/2 Warp v3 (OS2W3) when asked for Installation Diskette 2 (http://www.claunia.com/qemu/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=132&iTestingId=138). QEMU 0.8.2 is the last known (to me) release to successfully install OS2W3. QEMU version 1.0 and the latest development version (as of 2012-01-05) have been verified not to work. A 'git bisect' reveals the issue was introduced during a migration to new removable media handling prior to the QEMU 0.9.0 release: There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 66c6ef7678939f2119eb649074babf5d5b2666f6 ea185bbda732dae6b6a5a44699f90c83e21f1494 19cb37389f4641d48803f0c5d72708749cbcf318 We cannot bisect more! For testing, the 'qcow' hard drive format was chosen due to QEMU 0.8.2 not having 'qcow2': $ qemu -M isapc -m 8 -localtime -soundhw sb16 -hda os2.qcow -fda install.img -boot a Of note, the ISA-only PC (isapc) was needed for QEMU 0.8.2 to 0.9.0. Otherwise QEMU hangs on start-up. Later versions of QEMU, segmentation fault when attempting to use '-M isapc' though boot correctly when using the default PC machine. The currently preferred method to install OS2W3 is to use another application (such as VirtualBox or VMWare), using a QEMU compatible disk image format. Once installed, QEMU can then run OS2W3; which it does phenomenally well. However, I've identified a way to install OS2W3 exclusively with QEMU, which may also shed additional light on the issue. 1. Using a relatively new QEMU (I'm on 0.11.1), install OS2W3 as you normally would on to a 'qcow2' hard drive. 2. When Installation Diskette 2 is reached, save a VM snapshot. 3. Quit QEMU and re-run, loading the VM state *with* the Installation Diskette 2 image in the floppy drive. $ qemu -m 8 -localtime -soundhw sb16 -hda os2.qcow2 -fda disk2.img -loadvm install The installation process will then continue as normal. This same method can be used once OS2W3 continues installing from it's GUI. Installation Diskette 7 experiences the same issue of not being recognised when inserted. Of note, as an unrelated issue, I was unable to save VM snapshots in QEMU 1.0 or later. Thank you for a fantastic emulator. cheers, multitude To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/912983/+subscriptions
