Please find below more concise information: For both the imported vmdk and the freshly installed using OS Type: Linux and version: Red Hat Linux 6.2 the following happens: [image: image.png]
>From here it starts to check disk hda8 which just does not complete. The fdsik for hda on this machine, from default installation looks like this: (Taken from the working copy on Windows) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4 522 4168867+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4 216 1710891 83 Linux /dev/hda6 217 429 1710891 83 Linux /dev/hda7 430 462 265041 83 Linux /dev/hda8 463 495 265041 83 Linux /dev/hda9 496 522 216846 82 Linux swap Please Best regards Hugo Meyer On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 3:12 PM Hugo Meyer <hugosme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day, > > The above Linux version supports iBCS (Intel biary compatibility system) > which is required to execute the SCO binary I have to run to do development > on a system that's been around since the early nineties. Later version do > not support this. > > I have a virtual that was created with VMWare version 7.1 so many years > ago and I want to run this VM on QEMU as a KVM. It does not work though. It > has issues with the disks. > > Creating a brand new VM with from an RHL5.1 ISO results in the same > trouble. > > Virtualbox runs it happily on a Windows host. > > It does not have a gui and I want to run it on a VPS where it can be > stopped, started etc with virsh. > > Is there some adjustment I can make to improve the situation? > > RHL5.1 was in use from 1998 - 2002. > > Best regards > > Hugo Meyer >
