@ruthan
something I wanted to ask, can you test if NTKERN.VXD of windows ME can work in windows 98? or if it BSODs?
MAKE A BACKUP OF NTKERN.VXD BEFORE SWAPPING
it’s located in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
edit: nevermind, i can test it myself
ME_NTKERN.zip (370 KB)
Now its time for some summary / how to post.
All is done with Win98 SE, but it should work with Win95, Win98 non SE too - untested.
If someone will trying to say that Win98 are not more needed, look and DosFresks compatbility megasheet sheet:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ZuEpG…nFlZUdLamc/view
I like just run installer and play the game, not fiddle with settings to make it eventually working on more Windows / Wine etc… thats how these games where meant to play…
Here we go:
Prerequisites (details bellow):
a) Check if you CPU, MB is supporting Virtualization - vt-d or AMDs ekvivalent and turn it on in Bios
b) 1 free pcie / pci slot
c) Videocard compatible with your slots with existing Windows 98 drivers
d) Plug card in and check if card is actually working with your machine, any OS or at boot time. You dont need install drivers etc… just check that at least new unknown devices is present.
Unfortunately i have at least one Gigabyte Z370 board which is completely ignoring PCI-E gen1 videocards… I waiting about your PCI-E gen1 and newer MB compatibility reports…
f) Existing modern Linux OS installation or at least 30 GB of free space for it… If you are still not MBR, it could be installed on extended partition, so MBRs max 3/4 max primary partitions limits will not harm you… You can install lots of distros check my disk
e) Get WIndows 98 cd image, i highly recommend to use Win98 image adjusted for booting, otherwise you have to get also some Windows 98 install boot floppy and add it to script (add to starting script -fda /path/floppy.img)
f) ready graphicscard drivers and realtek 8139 network card drivers, proven package is here: http://www.claunia.com/qemu/drivers/index.html
g) Get lots of time and armor yourself by some patience it would take hours or days.
Lets do it:
0) optimal step - get hammer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l…rt_radio=1&t=17 or bigger one you if prefer harder music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOM2HmxW…b2Xcklc&index=2
Boot into Linux…
1) Boot your existing linux installation, or make new one.
- If dont know which distro to install install Mint - most user friendly, or Arch if you like more control and steeper learning curve.
Heiko video card pass-through tutorial
2) Now is use this KVM / QEMU tutorial, thx Heiko, i read lots of them this is very best one:
https://heiko-sieger.info/running-window…ga-passthrough/
my Win98 enhancements of tutorial:
3) Use tutorial until part 11 when you starting to install Windows 10,
- you can skip:
VFIO drivers driver part (chapter 7 and all other optimal stuff)
- Part 10 - Part 10 – Create Script to Start Windows can read as something which will help you understand qemu commands.
- from part About_keyboard_and_mouse - you need just the end - how to discover devices ides, nothing more we will use other non USB way
- Part 8 - way easier is just create image, i recommend other growable types that qcow like vhd or vmdk (vmware type) these could be mounted even on Windows to easily access and add data.
There is HDD image creating command for vmdk which i prefer:
qemu-img create -f vmdk Win98-System.vmdk 5G // Name is you choice, size max is 30G or 32GB to not hit Windows 98 problematic 32 GB limit, you can add second bigger data hdd for content, after you will install all patches to fix this limit or just resize original image… For Win98 even 1GB is enough
- You also dont need to install ovmf package, its for EFI, but you can.
Modifications for not EFI videocards:
4) Heikos tutorial is for modern EFI videocards, so we will need some changes at the end:
- Part 4 - dont add this line: options vfio-pci disable_vga=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
- We need to add x-vga=on parameter to graphics card passthrough qemu line, so results would looks like this:
TBD
Qemu starting scipt
5) Now its qemu Qemu script time, use Heiko how to make script and syntax etc… just replace qemu commands with these ones:
- \ character at the end of lines are also joiners for multi-line command to make it more readable
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 <br />-name $vmname,process=$vmname <br />-machine type=pc,accel=kvm <br />-cpu host,kvm=off <br />-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 <br />-rtc clock=host,base=localtime <br />-parallel none <br />-balloon none <br />-mem-prealloc <br />-parallel none <br />-L . <br />-object input-linux,id=kbd,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-ZALMAN_ZM-K600S-event-kbd <br />-object input-linux,id=mouse,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-093a_USB_OPTICAL_MOUSE-event-mouse <br />-vga none <br />-soundhw ac97,pcspk <br />-device vfio-pci,host=08:00.0,x-vga=on <br />-boot order=dc <br />-usb <br />-hda ./Win98-System-PassThrough-i440fx.vmdk <br />-drive file=/media/Win7_64/VirtualMachines/Win98SE-ENG.iso,index=2,media=cdrom <br />-drive file=/media/Win7_64/VirtualMachines/Win98-Data-Import.iso,index=3,media=cdrom <br />-k en-us <br />-net nic,model=rtl8139,macaddr=02:01:04:03:05:01 -net tap,ifname=tap0
alter your disk image / iso filenames and patches and
-cpu host,kvm=off // Its Nvidia only for, other videocard use just -cpu host
- newer qemu at least 4.2 doesnt support -ballon none parameter, i dunno its new syntax right (maybe -ballon 0 ) now just remove it
- place evdev keyboard before mouse is important, otherwise i was getting stuck mouse cursor within VM (thans to zir_blazer )
- alter your videocard ids:
-device vfio-pci,host=… \ Line
- alter your input devices names: // Its enable you not USB input, its before that USB input, which not working during Windows 98 setup, in same mode etc and its for more modern OSes
- object input-linux… // Lines… This will pasthtough your usb devices as PS/2 ones that is main trick
To find ids, your these terminal commands:
ls /dev/input/by-id
ls /dev/input/by-path
and adjust path depending of results - to full path.
- you can alter sound card line soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk … to simulate other windows 98 supported sound card (es1370(unproven so far to work in Win98),ac97(proven),gus,cs4231a (unproven, i dunno which card is exactly emulated, i tried few drivers no luck) are options) or pass through real PCI one or USB one… - but do it later after make all other things working…
- usb is optimal you can not need use to use it at all
- net nic… you can alter Mac address… every machine in your network need unique one!
- Drivers and other data import, line:
-drive file=/media/Win7_64/VirtualMachines/Win98-Data-Import.iso,index=3,media=cdrom \
Your need someone import at least network driver if you want to use network and games installers… for this im creating some own iso (one Linux with ISO master) on windows you can use Winimage, WinISO, PowerISO etc.
After installation - where is virtualdisk formated you can all import data right into disk images… google qcow, vmdk, vhdx data import depending on you selected disk image format… From my experience on Windows its quite easy, you can import image to Windows edit it and import it back…
- i dind tested it… too much, why someone would need slower machine… but yeah can adjust cpu speed by adding this parameter:
-cpu XXX
Here are possible values (down to 486):
* You would ignore whole videocard / input pass through things… you still make by some style cosy Windows 98 virtual on Windows or Linux like with Virtualbox or Vmware, just without drag and drop file import support, just remove these lines:
-object input-linux,id=mouse,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-093a_USB_OPTICAL_MOUSE-event-mouse <br />-object input-linux,id=kbd,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-ZALMAN_ZM-K600S-event-kbd <br />-vga none <br />-device vfio-pci,host=08:00.0,x-vga=on </i>
And adding this one:
-vga cirrus
For Windows you need to replace "" lines joiners with “^” characters…
Of course you will get working only 2D graphics, not full 3D - that is why we acctually mess with video card passthrough.
Note with working fine with Qemu 4.2 on Windows, with Qemu 2.11 at least on Linux you still need that -object input line on Linux to make mouse workings, its just Qemu bug…
Qemu no pass through script example, also good to look at networking:
No one likes my guide 
I’m glad that you could figure out most things by yourself. I simply can’t be helpful because you’re doing things in a totally different way than how I do it (For example, if you check my guide, you will see that I use systemd-networkd and some text files to create virtual MACVTAPs, one for each VM), and I just know how to do things my way. Linux gives perhaps TOO MUCH customization freedom as every existing person does things slighty different than every other one.
After all the time you spended to make the damn thing work, are you satisfied enough with the results to consider correct my belief than virtualization with just Video Card passthrough is already good enough to completely supercede bare metal? I can’t see any reason why someone would prefer bare metal over virtualized assuming that there is no compatibility edge case and that you are already confortable with all the Linux and QEMU woes. All the performance related stuff can be quite fine tuned, latency is not significantly worse than bare metal on a fully optimized system (Albeit that takes A LOT of effort, too).
You may want to test more games to figure out if compatibility is as good as the real thing. Seems like the only thing that needs some more fine tuning is the emulated Sound Card, but given than both QEMU, DOSBox and PCem are open source, I suppose that someone can figure out which project has the best emulation and port it to the others. The only thing that was missing was the Video Card and now you have it working.
[quote=zir_blazer]No one likes my guide :(guide[/quote]
Its that your guide is now down… I wanted to check it once more… Problem was that text, was wall of text… Heikos guide is long and have nice ToC nad section and its easily readable that make huge difference, other info was that your guide is from 2016, if someone intest so much time into it, its good to keep it up to date.
In general people are scared new things, read some Nvidia Geforce Now, comments, for example, i now that is streaming and but i could you still get better picture and latency than old console. Before pass through there was hard to argue argument - no 3D - no 3D=no gaming.
Before i installed PCI bus, i was slideshow it can get lots of people scared… later with enabled DMA driver, even with generic VGA driver it got response, with real graphics driver, i can really say difference between passthrough and real machine, i dont feel any additional input lag, but im quite sure that lots of people will be afraid of that. For me its now performance nice, look and disks benchmark picture, 400+ MB/s wasnt before possible with Win98.
Only thing what i can tell now, is sound… i tried Quake 3 all was right… but after that i tried Unreal Tournament 99 demo… and there was 3 seconds lag something like that… In console is spamming some unknow Sound Blaster 16 command… but there are other sound emulation possibilities, sound card pass through or usb sound card options… I simply haven enough time to test it, i thing that something by one or other way its solvable… I simply started to write guide… before some more testing. I other hope is simply newer Qemu, 2.11 is 2 years old, Qemu 4 should have some sound enhancement, i only dunno if official or some custom version…
Exactly i respond same way, before i read what you wrote… Otherwise see issues not working keypad is also PITA and its same even with Qemu 4.2 on Dos, but its strange that with XP+ its fine, its probably some difference between PS and USB keyboard emulation… or old OS dont support some clever not wiring.
You can still help me with some things.
1) iGPU // People which are interested with Win98 only can ignore it, but we already started to messing with it…
I found quite nice guide from Intel:
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki/…te-gvt-d-kvm-vm
But im unsure by one thing. I section 4.1.2 is this:
NOTICE: After you change the display card to Intel graphics card, Qemu will comes to black screen, you only can see guest desktop by remote protocal.
and it NOTICE: After you install Windows GFX driver, you can see guest desktop by both QEMU and remote protocol. QEMU display the emulated driver and the remote protocol display the Intel GFX driver. BTW, There is a known issue that some 3D workload cannot run with hardware acceleration while both GFX card is available, so suggest to disable the emulated GFX card in "Device Manager" after you make sure the Intel GFX card is working.
Im not sure what is exactly Qemu display… Could you confirm that iGPU picture work just dedicated card passthrough and can get direct picture from it, not just some remote desktop?
I tried to applicated suggested X /etc/X11/xorg.conf change, but i got scared, because when i rebooted… i got 640x480 desktop instead my normal Nvidias full monitor resolution… Maybe i can simply change resolution, but i wasnt sure, that happened… For Nvidia was Xorg empty…
2) I have some partition backups, so i try some wild things… I would like to install last Qemu 4.2, i found some guides:
http://tabletuser.blogspot.com/2019/05/i…-to-ubuntu.html // Tohle vypada sofistikovane…
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/b…audio_test_now/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1067722/…on-ubuntu-18-04
I can build Qemu easily, maybe with all targets (im not sure which build target i need and how to setup it, used names are strange soft something), not with one which i really need, but i can… But im not sure how i will do next setup, how i will actually replaced old qemu inbuild in my distro with builded one… Is there some better way that copy lots of files to lots of location manually. There is some checkinstall which maybe to do that… maybe sudo make install from other tutorail do that…
Last thing which i want is replace system qemu links… to some folder on my desktop where i built it.
3) You mentioned now need for extra monitor or mouse and keyboard, should this work for for Win98 machine too? I tried ALT+CTL no luck.
4) Its someone to setup that shareable disk image with QEMU, or its only virt-manager thing?
The first section about QEMU black screening seems to apply to Linux guests only, whereas the second quote is for Windows ones. You may want to read this, which provides far more detail about both Legacy and UPT modes: http://vfio.blogspot.com/2016/07/intel-g…assignment.html
Regardless, I do NOT recommend to do IGP Passthrough (GVT-d), but instead try GPU Virtualization (GVT-g). Here are Intel own instructions about how to create a vGPU instance:
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki/GVTg_Setup_Guide
Note that GVT-g doesn’t display to the physical output directly (Which IGP Passthrough does), but either remotely (VNC/SPICE, needs a client), or as a window in the host like if you were using an emulated Video Card (Which I think is what Local Display means). You should still be able to configure QEMU to run at a borderless full screen resolution, in its own X.org session or Workspace, so that it appears as if it owned the Monitor.
Check the GTK one here for GVT-g Local Display: https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki/Dma_Buf_User_Guide
I’m sure that there should be better guides around.
I have no idea about how to manually compile. Check in whatever distribution you use wiki about how to install the latest packages versions from the repositories, as is impossible that there isn’t a recent QEMU version ready to be installed.
If you’re using EVDEV Passthrough, use Left Ctrl + Right Ctrl. You’re also missing grab_all=on,repeat=on for the Keyboard, like this:
-object input-linux,id=kbd,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-ZALMAN_ZM-K600S-event-kbd,grab_all=on,repeat=on
-object input-linux,id=mouse,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-093a_USB_OPTICAL_MOUSE-event-mouse
Note that there may be issues with stuck keys and ghost presses if you’re using EVDEV Passthrough but not the VirtIO Keyboard and Mouse devices and Drivers, but since these have no Windows 98 Drivers anyways…
I don’t understand what you’re trying to mean with this question.
You can’t share in-use disk images, so if QEMU is running a VM that is using a disk image, you have to close it first before using it somewhere else. At times I have attached the disk image of a VM to another VM as a secondary HD if I wanted to make a mass file transfer without using network. Just imagine Dual Boot inside a VM.
I quickly tested SB16+Qemu 2.11 sound with some games:
- im testing demo, filesharing betwenn Win98 and Samba is not working yet… so im importing data true some iso… so smaller is better. I probably have to install some updates to Win98 for networking, because now when i trying to get to some share, i get dialog only with password but not user name… and when i try right password im getting working password.
- Diablo 1 demo- i know this game very wel, so i could sometime notice some strange sound, but its far from some classic stuterring, simply something from time to time sound old.
- Diablo 2 - its not good, some stuttering some sounds are cut in half
- Starctaft demo - all seems fine
- Wacraft III demo - there is some unwanted pops sound… from time to time…
- I retested Unreal Tournament lastest demo - set sound quality to low - some sound are cut in half or broken, i also installed DX 8.1 update, maybe it matters.
- NHL99 demo- everything nice.
- Deus EX demo again Unreal engine, same problems with Unreal Tournament
-Vampire Masquerade - very small additional crackling sometimes
- Sin demo - sound is low quality
- Serios Sam demo - some additional crackling from time to time and it seem that there is some delay
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein demo - there some addition crackling
- MDK 2 demo - seems fine
- Myth 2 demo - seems fine
- Cliver Barker Undying demo other unreal engine game - big delay
- Dungeon Keeper W95 demo - everything seems fine
- Max Payne demo - some crackling and pistol shoot sound is strange(broken)
- Heavy metal FAKK 2 - demo i got few pops through dialogs
What is good all tested games as worked, no video glitches.
I selected to emulated SB16 because it could provide in theory DOS/Windows 9x combo system, because its nice to have it… But maybe its too high target and some standalone Dos and Win virtual machine would be better.
I plan to test some Dos games too.
Im also using SB16 driver from Windows 98 SE CD, its from 1999, maybe Creative have some better driver.
Im far to be audio guy, im fine with Realtek integrated sound cards for years. Back in era, i for long time machine without sound cards, because it was expensive thing… And i had only for 2 years some SB 16 - Turtle ISP16 or something like that SB 16 clone and cheap speakers… and i dont really remember how sound was like. Later i had SB 128 PCI, which was just fine.
So some not perfect audio thing, could be just SB16 natural thing, because its 1992 or something like that soundcard, which is used for 1999-2002 games.
We really need some Vogons audio experts to review this…
There is some Windows 98 - quality sample conversion rate settings, i had set by default to good, there are 2 more levels, i wonder if it matters.
Otherwise i saw, in Heikos Win 10 qemu script also some Pulse audio variable, im using them for Win98, maybe its mistake… maybe they are just for hda emulation.
Other question is if could get something more that stereo from virtual sound card… it could be catch for some people too.
So lots of variables…
BTW can someone recommend some Win98 updates pack to install? I prefer something less invasive that whole SP3 pack, just updates.
Have you considered having two launch scripts where one uses SB16 and the other something else? You have to change JUST a single line. I don’t know how picky Windows 98 could be if you change the Hardware if you decide to boot with one or the other.
Oh, and you may be interesed in reading this: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2020/01/qemu-sound-audiodev/
Note that I haven’t played around with all the environment variables and decided to just passthrough the Motherboard integrated Intel HD Audio (And Realtek codec) to my main Windows 10 VM, so I get perfect sound at the cost of having my host and other VMs are soundless. This may not be viable for Windows 98 due to the lack of Drivers unless you get an era accurate PCI Sound Card.
You already posted this one, i read it… but its from 2016, in some things articles in really unsure and it seems to be for IGPU no other graphics scenario, to it boot linux to some console mode only and usign iGPU for virtual, i understand it right. I already have both mentioned kernel parameters activated.
My scenario is different i have main Nvidia card and i hav unused iGPU to play with it… I thing that is quite valid scenarion with iGPU in Virtual machine you can play, with QXL or other virtual you cant.
It took my while to see that there are actually 2 standard not one, these similar names… It seems that it article is same what i already posted.
What im missing is some info, about minimal QEMU version, there is only some info download last and shiny version of Qemu…
So why is gvt-g better when i has not direct output? By IGP passthrough you mean gvt-d? In theory VNC/SPICE is good for remote desktop work, but could it give me response times <15 ms to make gaming feasible? I dont have trust in that, but maybe its only technical superstition…
Qemu bordless full screen - it seems interesting, but how to setup it?
I dunno what type of pass through it used but, i my memory works i was able to get direct iGPU picture with it.
Qemu compilation / installation:
I finally managed to compile Win version too, on Windows but its linux toolchain - MSYS so it would be probably the same on Linux, only Qemu quide… use it as second best… or not primary, so it didnt use it.
I primary wanted to hear from you as Linux guy, how to simply replace system package by compiled one, i though that you would know… I wrote my suspitions … checkinstall and make install command but im not sure about.
Qemu of Mint is funny, we have old version because of Ubuntu, i dunno how about Debian, but its often outdated in some ways.
I found this request to integrate newer version:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=295983
But response it would mean, main it outside of Ubuntu inherited stuff and that is last for small minitoring of users…
I asked on Mint forum about installation and i got nothing:
orums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=313663&p=1772120#p1772120
Input releasing
Thanks, so magic parameter, i never saw this one in guide which i red, i will test it. Is there way to use custom key combination?
VIrtio guest:
On VIrtio cs is something names guess installer, i installed it, but i dunno what it is doinging, its Xp+, do you have idea?
Yeah mean share 1 image for multiple machine, i hoped that there is some abstraction to make it happen… So probably shareble in virt manager means only that can you in multiple machine, but are not run in same time.
I already asked for this info… and you answered that it si possible, so it was maybe some misunderstanding…
In the past of mentioned this:
Do you have magic command example? Other do you have any recommendation how to mount vmdk image on linux for direct data access?
I updated SB16 sound quality testing post above, what is nice all Win9x games just working on graphical issues.
I also tested Dos inside of Windows, i tried Doom2 - but its slideshow and sound is same broken like in direct Linux Qemu Dos boot. Quake is the same, GLQuake is running well. I was affraid that Win98 dosbox Nvidia black screen bug, it is not there, details:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=55794
But i have noticed before that even Fdisk simple text info, is rendering very, very slowly… My guess that unofficial Nvidia driver bug, not Qemu one… i have to mad such thing before i will start to testing other videocards… I plan to test at least some PCI card and probably also some ATI X600-X800 card.
Is there something better for Win98 remote access than TightVNC? I was using Teamviewer6, but they killed it because some security bla, bla… new version is not more able to connect to these ancient version, maybe you get some older portable one… if it can run alongside of installed version.
Remoting from WIn98 is better, you can install MS RDP and connect to newer machine Win7 fine, but there is problem with files stranges. But it working nicly with Linux, there are able to transfer files, where i use something called xrdp, when i trying to connect to machine, im getting some combobox with connection options, where i can select this one.
Is the same thing. You are going to leave the host headless. Also, you may need to configure some way to access the host remotely (SSH?) before doing that.
GVT-g allows you to create multiple vGPU instances for multiple VMs (Usually either up to 3 or 7) without sacrificing host own video (As usually you passthrough a discrete Video Card, not the integrated one). Local Display is like what you’re used to from seeing a VM windowed, but with full GPU acceleration. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNvGM7Wkhs
It is possible to remove the borders and menu bar of a QEMU window. It is called "undecorate". If your VM resolution matches the Monitor resolution and it hasn’t been resized, congratulations, you have borderless fullscreen. The guy from the video uses it but I don’t know what he did.
Note that you’re limited by Driver support, you can’t use GVT-g for Windows 98. Windows XP was supported but I’m not sure if Intel dropped it.
Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #88
Qemu compilation / installation:
I finally managed to compile Win version too, on Windows but its linux toolchain - MSYS so it would be probably the same on Linux, only Qemu quide… use it as second best… or not primary, so it didnt use it.
I primary wanted to hear from you as Linux guy, how to simply replace system package by compiled one, i though that you would know… I wrote my suspitions … checkinstall and make install command but im not sure about.
Qemu of Mint is funny, we have old version because of Ubuntu, i dunno how about Debian, but its often outdated in some ways.
I have absolutely no idea about what you’re talking about. There are times when your english is almost impossible to understand. I tried to decode and guess what you tried to say, but after reading it 5 times I gave up.
Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #88
I already asked for this info… and you answered that it si possible, so it was maybe some misunderstanding…
In the past of mentioned this:
Do you have magic command example? Other do you have any recommendation how to mount vmdk image on linux for direct data access?
Of course, exactly such i plan to do.
You are right there is not Realtek HD driver for Win98, its WinXP+
Sorry im a bit confused, does it means that i will lose my Nvidia primary GPu setup, when i will want to use iGPU pass through?
Even when i dont like mainframe relicts, i have ssh in order and im able to use it… I know that you can even tunnel X through it…
I know that, im trying it making it working with Win7.
Virtio guest
im very Sorry, im dis graphic… so sometime i forgot some letters, or replace some with others… there should be… cd… and guest… that by lots of my post are edited, i usually trying to write something without review and later i find out that there error, review everything before, would mean give up to this behavior and im lazy of course. When i open Virtio cd, there is folder guest-agent, when i run it… i dont get any message… i only wondered is some ekvivalent of Vmware \Virtualbox guest tools?
I have found some info here:
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent
It really dont seems that it could do match… there some freeze for backuping, but otherwise seems that all these thing could be done through basic qemu monitor too… tehre stop command too, im using system_powerdown through it all the time. I Really dunno if there is any difference…
Vmdk mounting
I found about that is possible through vmware Workstation gui, its not able in Player, but with Workstation have feature parity of this with Windows. I saw some tutorials, that is possible to do it from terminal, so i asked for some recommendation, it could be good for people without Vmware Workstation license… i of course prefer GUI Vmware way… I only had to run it with gksu to mount it from NTFS partitions…
I have found easy way how to install newer Qemu to Ubuntu and its clones…
https://mathiashueber.com/manually-updat…n-ubuntu-18-04/
This 3rd party repository, but there is only 2.12 so no big upgrade, but better than nothing…
Ok i managed to install newest and shinnest Qemu to Ubuntu base systems, by this tutorial:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1067722/…on-ubuntu-18-04
Just replace qemu 3.0.0 for you wanted version… i tried its working fine. Its will replace system one, there is not unwanted directory mess etc… i dunno really understoop all checkinstall options so i used default for everything…
Goog news is that it could be removed by:
dpkg -r qemu
So you can try it until you will satisfied with result.
Pass through is still working, i only had to remove option -balloon none , it probably changed syntax… i checked docs, but im not really sure how to set it up, is -ballon 0, is ekvivalent of ballon none…
I would take at least temporarly few GBs of space, but after end you can delete temp folder where you downloaded, extracted and build newer version…
I tried enhanced keyboard line for input release, but its not working.
I tried CRTL+ALT,CRTL+ALT+G… left and right CRTL and ALT, so far i got nothing, input is still locked within virtual machine, i will try it with more moder Oses if it matters or not… With Windows version, without pass through its working fine…
Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #92
Sorry im a bit confused, does it means that i will lose my Nvidia primary GPu setup, when i will want to use iGPU pass through?
Even when i dont like mainframe relicts, i have ssh in order and im able to use it… I know that you can even tunnel X through it…
Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #92
Virtio guest
im very Sorry, im dis graphic… so sometime i forgot some letters, or replace some with others… there should be… cd… and guest… that by lots of my post are edited, i usually trying to write something without review and later i find out that there error, review everything before, would mean give up to this behavior and im lazy of course. When i open Virtio cd, there is folder guest-agent, when i run it… i dont get any message… i only wondered is some ekvivalent of Vmware \Virtualbox guest tools?
I have found some info here:
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Qemu_guest_agent
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent
It really dont seems that it could do match… there some freeze for backuping, but otherwise seems that all these thing could be done through basic qemu monitor too… tehre stop command too, im using system_powerdown through it all the time. I Really dunno if there is any difference…
As far that I know, there are like a million of different ways to mount VMDK images in Linux, but I have no idea about them since I use LVM volumes or RAW file images.
I have absolutely no idea why it doesn’t work for you. It did for the last guy that had your problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/7…ting_to_hotkey/
The method is OS agnostic since QEMU should always trap that key combination. Guest OS doesn’t matter.
I just looked into other emulated Sound cards, it not looks good.
ES1370 - im able to install drivers, after restart im getting that device is working, but i ran some games im getting only noise, or bluescreens.
AC97 - its reported that it worked at least in the pass, i tried driver 400 a 406, from realtek but i got only Code 11 error on device in device manager.
Crystal4231 - crystal4231 should be main chip, but not whole card, there are some crystal 4232-4236 drivers, i tried some no luck… It was detected as Windows sound system, even it not worked too.
Other if they would work, both AC97 and ES1370 have also SB16 emulation. I didnt find anything like info about sound drivers recommended for Win98, there not so much info.
@zir_blazer
iGPU
This one is nice, it seems that i have all ready for legacy iGPu pass through… machine working nice through remote desktop, intel HD driver is here but still not picture from monitor output and legacy mod should had it.
I have one more indication that something not right, vanilla remote desktop is working, but when i use some advanced like Teamviewer and Anydesk to try test real 3D is working, if is enable in dxdiag (classic remote desktop disable these after connection) im getting only broken picture only some small bitmaps chucks… so something is still wrong… it not probably just video input problem… I will try install normal TightVNC server on Win7 machine, if picture would be again broken or not…
Why you are using LVM, i always though that is some "server thing", you have some home RAID? VMDK is nice for multiplatform usage, i can edit in on Win/Linux/Mac combo… with qcow - i dunno how to directly edit in Windows, vhd / or vhdx has some problem on MacOS - but there is bigger change that solution edits.
From link above, i dont really understand what means this
What is that if01 device? In commands some keyboard mouse mix, its some mouse\keyboard combo set with some unified wireless receiver?
I also now with Qemu 4.2 have problem, that my original WinXP USB pass through is not working:
-usb <br /> -device usb-host,vendorid=0x093a,productid=0x2521 <br /> -device usb-host,vendorid=0x060b,productid=0x2312 </i>
Error:
(qemu) qemu-system-x86_64: -device usb-host,vendorid=0x093a,productid=0x2521: ‘usb-host’ is not a valid device model name
I dunno if syntax changed or i compiled it without some usb support.
For now i can bypass it by etdev, but its not ideal.
Im trying to make working PCI pass through PCI-E to PCI Pericom adapter ( Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X111SL PCIe-to-PCI Reversible Bridge ) it has 2 PCI slots.
But im getting this error for Nvidia TNT 64 PCI:
qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,host=09:05.0,x-vga=on,romfile=/media/Win7_64/VirtualMachines/!roms/TNT2M64.rom: vfio 0000:09:05.0: Failed to set up TRIGGER eventfd signaling for interrupt INTX-0: VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS failure: Device or resource busy
Im trying Creative SB Live, i same adapter pass through part seems ok (there are 2 devices sound card main and special for gameport), but i have test it in Win98, i have time to do it, because it would mean setup other script with virtual VGA, because TNT2 is not working. I tried without rom file, but it was the same.
I will have to setup, if problem is just with TNT2 or also with other cards…
I added to tutorial post, how to download rom directly from card and how to check if is UEFI compatible or not.
BTW if you have already working whole setup, just add pass through of other card is 20 minutes thing…
Ok i made TNT2 passthrough working i forget to add line to /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf i only add whole devices… i forget it because i made backup of file and made change to backup to original file…
alias pci:v000010DEd00000FBBsv00001458sd00003679bc04sc03i00 vfio-pci
Its actually interesting that if this is not working vfio-pci, but you still added device to list on the end of line:
options vfio-pci ids=10de:0142,8086:1912,10de:002d,1102:0004,1102:7003,8086:a170
that it is detected…
Lots of people have this problem, there is lots of bugs bla, bla its just bad or missing line.