QEMU

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This is a page about the qemu port by IngoReis and mcobit

Documentation

PND download and installation

Downloading the PND

Use your favorite browser to navigate to the following url: [repo...](Will be available after release) and klick the Download button. Save the File somewhere on your PC. If you use your Pandora to download, you can save it to the directory mentioned in the next chapeter directly.

Installing the PND

Put the downloaded file onto your sdcard into one of the following folders: For Desktop: YOURSDCARD/pandora/desktop For Menu: YOURSDCARD/pandora/menu For both: YOURSDCARD/pandora/apps

If you do this on your PC, insert the sdcard into your Pandora afterwards.

If you use pndstore or some other tool to download and install pnds, please see their documentation for how to use them.

Running the PND

If the above steps worked properly, you should see the Qemu for Pandora icon in the above mentioned place(s) now. (Double)click it to startup the GUI.

Using the UI

Main

Mounting HDD images

Click on the icon with the folder next to "Load image..." to browse your filesystem. Navigate to the imagefile you want to load and select it by doubleclicking it or mark it with a single click and press "open". The help-button will provide some hints on how to do that as well. It is also possible to enter the fullpath including the imagename into the box directly. (e.g. /media/PATHTOYOURSD/qemuimages/freedos.qcow2)

Mounting CD/DVD images

Click on the icon with the folder next to "Load iso.." to browse your filesystem. Navigate to the iso (cdrom image) you want to load and select it by doubleclicking it or mark it with a single click and press "open". The help-button will provide some hints on how to do that as well. It is also possible to enter the fullpath including the isoname into the box directly. (e.g. /media/PATHTOYOURSD/qemuimages/freedos.iso)

Assigning RAM to the machine

Click on the textfield next to "RAM in MB" and enter the amount of RAM in MegaBytes, that the machine should use. If you leave this field blank, the standard value of 128MB will be used.

Launch the machine

When you are happy with all options, you can click the "Launch" button to start the virtual machine.

Exit the UI

If you want to quit the gui, click on the "Cancel" button in the Main tab.

Image Tools

Creating HDD images using the UI

  • On the "Image Tools" tab, type in the name of your image in the first textfield without a fileextension. (e.g. test-image)
  • Type the desired size of the new image into the second textfield. The size is in MegaBytes. So for a 1GB image type 1024.
  • Click on the "Create Image" button.

Your new image will be created in the following directory: appdata/qemu/images/

Other options

Video options

  • Use Bochs vga card instead of Cirrus Logic

Simulate a standard VGA card with Bochs VBE extensions instead of the default Cirrus Logic GD5446 PCI VGA

  • Fullscreen

Start the virtual machine in fullscreenmode rather than in a window. You can switch between the modes by pressing alt+ctrl+f.

Sound options

  • Disable sound

Disable sound by selection this option. (Qemu doesn't support to disable the sound completely, but with this option you will choose a soundcard, that is not supported by most operating systems)

  • Adlib card emulation

Emulate an additional Adlib synthesizer card.

CPU options

  • 486 CPU instead of pentium

Check this option, if you want qemu to emulate a 486 PC instead of the default pentium PC.

Network options

  • Disable Network

Check this, if you do not want qemu to emulate a networkcard.

Installing an OS into an image

Creating HDD images using your Desktop PC (Linux)

Creating HDD images using your Desktop PC (Windows)

Installing Microsoft DOS

On your Desktop PC

On the Pandora

Installing Microsoft Windows 3.1 / 3.11

On your Desktop PC

On the Pandora

Installing Microsoft Windows 95

On your Desktop PC

On the Pandora

Installing Microsoft Windows XP

On your Desktop PC

On the Pandora

Installing Linux

On your Desktop PC

On the Pandora

Downloading and using ready-made FreeDOS and ReactOS images

Troubleshooting

Known problems

We are working on them. If you have found a solution or can provide a patch, please pm mcobit at boards.openpandora.org

  • Paths to image or isofiles as well, as imagenames specified in the "Image Tool" MUST NOT contain any whitespaces.

Report a bug

What to do, if…

Credits

Compatibility lists

Operating Systems

Name Version Runs? Useable? Loadingtime Comments
Microsoft DOS 6.22 Yes Yes ??
Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes Yes ??
Microsoft Windows 3.1 ?? ?? ??
Microsoft Windows 3.11 ?? ?? ??
Microsoft Windows 95 Yes Yes ??
Microsoft Windows 98 ?? ?? ??
Microsoft Windows ME ?? ?? ??
Microsoft Windows 2000 ?? ?? ?? Should only install with activated Win2k hack for qemu
Microsoft Windows XP Yes Not quite ??
Microsoft Windows VISTA ?? ?? ??
Microsoft Windows 7 ?? ?? ??
Freedos 1.1 Yes Yes ?? Need a bit of work to get it installed
ReactOS ?? Yes Yes ?? Downloadable image from website [link]
Ubuntu Linux ?? ?? ?? ??
TinyCore Linux ?? Yes Yes ??

Office/Desktop programs

Name Version Runs? Useable? Loadingtime Comments
Notepad Windows 95 Yes Yes

Games

Office/Desktop programs:

Name Version Operating System Runs Sound MHz Playable Comments
DungeonKeeper Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes Yes 870 Yes
Descent 1 Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes Yes 870 Yes
Ishar III Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes No 870 Yes
Battle Arena Toshinden Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes Yes 870 Yes
Age of Empires Microsoft Windows 95 Yes No 860 Yes
Tomb Raider Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes No 870 Yes Bit of stuttering
Need for Speed Microsoft Dos 7.10 Yes No 870 Yes Bit of stuttering
WIPEEEOUT Microsoft DOS 7.10 Yes No 870 Yes