I'm following these instructions to convert a Parallels machine into a VMWare Fusion Machine. So far so good.
I'm doing a XP Home machine now, planning to try a FreeBSD machine too, but I'm not sure if that will work. No, doesn't look like the conversion of FreeBSD will work. Too bad.
Also, you have to re-activate Windows XP Home once you convert the machine, and since Windows limits the amount of times you can re-activate a Windows XP license, I'm not going to at this time. As I keep saying, I will move to QEMU for good once KQEMU is ported to OS X.
Just for the heck of it I tried compiling KQEMU on my Macbook, but no luck:
make -C common all
gcc -Wall -O2 -Werror -g -D__KERNEL__ -I.. -o genoffsets genoffsets.c./genoffsets > monitor_def.h
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o i386/nexus_asm.o i386/nexus_asm.S
i386/nexus_asm.S:27:Unknown pseudo-op: .global
i386/nexus_asm.S:27:Rest of line ignored. 1st junk character valued 95 (_).
i386/nexus_asm.S:86:operands given don't match any known 386 instruction
i386/nexus_asm.S:117:bad register name ('%dr7')
i386/nexus_asm.S:146:bad register name ('%dr7')
i386/nexus_asm.S:170:operands given don't match any known 386 instruction
make[1]: *** [i386/nexus_asm.o] Error 1
make: *** [kqemu.o] Error 2
Well this is quite interesting:
Its from March of 2007, three months ago, so even though very little is said about it, it appears to be the real deal. I was able to get it to load, but I'm not sure if its getting used by Q.
Kernel Module unloaded:
1:40 to boot debian to login prompt.
root# ./load_kqemu.sh
kextload: extension kqemu.kext appears to be valid
kextload: notice: extension kqemu.kext has debug properties set
kextload: loading extension kqemu.kext
kextload: kqemu.kext loaded successfully
kextload: loading personalities named:
kextload: kqemu
kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel
kextload: matching started for kqemu.kext
And it took 1:37 to do the same thing after the kernel module was loaded. Hmmm. When I try to pass a qemu argument to use kqemu, I get an error saying -kernel-kqemu is not a valid option.
I was just checking out the OpenSUSE kqemu qemu docs and found a cool trick for qemu: you can access a vm monitor by changing consoles by typing alt-ctrl-2 all at once.
I am able to compile Q with the kqemu option enabled, but then when I try to run anything, it doesn't work at all. :-(
I'm doing this by editing the qemu/configure file to have kqemu="yes", when following the Downloading and compiling Q instructions given by the Q developers. The qemu folder gets copied to tmp/qemu in the build_i386.sh process.
What does this do:
|
With this client, I am able to connect, get the version, and run the three test. I'm not able to init or exec. I did a little more writing about this over at docunext.com. |
The new Q icons look awesome:
Very cool - I just realized I can use a Parallels drive with Q if it is in the raw format. I have to change the extension to .img, but that's fine with me. Yes its slower on a Mac but at least it will be portable to other computers which can use kqemu. :-)