PureWinLin - Linux emulated on Windows via QEMU

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:05 pm

Edwin Knoppert wrote: 2) To bad that my highest resolution can not be selected, i 'only' see 640x480 and 800x600.
The thing is that during switching, the Windows caption egt's out of sight.
Iow you can no longer grab the window

I added a small PB app to change the size of the X window. The app is located in the start menu (the foot) in a section called "Other". You can select between 800x600, 1024x768, and 1152x864.

Let me know if this works (or not) for you.

-Beach

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:42 pm

Shannara wrote:That would be excellent, until then Im using coLinux, it should be fairly easy for me to install the newest purebasic on coLinux?

Man, I'm sorry you are not able to use the QEMU version Shan... I will update the CoLinux version to be up to par with the QEMU version next week. At the moment, I am vacationing in the Great Smokey Mountains - in a small log cabin. I am on 24k dial-up connection too!

Post by **freak** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:48 pm

Finally i had the chance to test this too.

Excellent job!
Unpacked it, clicked run and it all worked, including network stuff.
Much simpler than the coLinux install

jqn · Post by **jqn** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:05 am

I'm working on it. Good Job!!

But... I'm not a Linux expert and I've a question:
HOW TO access to Windows folders, if possible.

At office I'm a workaround with FTP, but at home I don't have a FTP server installed.

JOAQUIN

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:01 pm

jqn wrote:But... I'm not a Linux expert and I've a question: HOW TO access to Windows folders, if possible.

No problem, here are the steps to mount a Windows share:

☼ Open a terminal window and become user 'root' (root password is 'pbroot')

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$ su root

☼ Install the necessary Samba packages, you only need to do this one time. This will add about 5.7mb. Take the defaults to the Samba setup questions.

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# apt-get install smbfs

☼ Create a directory to 'mount' your windows share on (only need to do this once per share). If you plan to mount multiple shares, the directory name you select should be descriptive to the share name - otherwise, you can simply name the directory something generic like 'windows'...

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# mkdir /mnt/windows

☼ Mount the share. This is a command you will need to give each time your virtual PC is booted, I usually create a bash script to keep this command because it is lengthy and it is hard to remember all the parameters. It might be fun to create a PB app that would do this for you, just keep in mind that user 'root' is the only one who can 'mount'.

The command is structured like so:
mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,ip=<share_servers_ip>,uid=1000 //<server>/<share> /mnt/<mount_dir>

Here is the command with the following stats:
Windows user name: beach
Windows server IP address: 192.168.1.10
Windows server name: stimpy
Share name: data
local dir: windows

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# mount -t smbfs -o username=beach,ip=192.168.1.10,uid=1000 //stimpy/data /mnt/windows

If all goes well, you should be asked for a password. Now you will be able to access the windows share from the mounted directory within all of your applications. Also, if your share is hidden (like 'data$') you will need to escape the '$' with a backslash ('data\$')

Let me know if you get stuck...

jqn · Post by **jqn** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:21 am

Hi Beach,
Thanks for your very fast reply.

I've installed samba, created /mnt/windows, and successfully connected to my shared resources. Many thanks.

Best Regards
JOAQUIN

jqn · Post by **jqn** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:52 am

2Beach:
I'm again.

I'm working with it and it's very nice. But I've some problems with keyboard (I'm using 105 keys intl. but it not recognizes some Alt Gr keys like |@#[]{}), and also with screen colors (it only show 255).

I've searched on docs at http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ and http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ but I've not found anything.

Please, can you say me where I can look for more information about these topics?.

JOAQUIN

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:25 am

I found an option to change the keyboard type in Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts (tab). I found a 105key international keyboard there as well - have you tried this?

Also, the default desktop is set to 24bit - but I am sure there are reasons why sometimes it would not work on all machines. My desktop is 24bit on my test PC (virtual PC that is). If your host PC display is also 24bit then I am at a loss as to why it would not be 24bit in the virtual display.

-Beach

jqn · Post by **jqn** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:26 am

I found an option to change the keyboard type in Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts (tab). I found a 105key international keyboard there as well - have you tried this?

Yes, I've installed "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" layout, but in spanish keyboard there are 9 special keys that contain a third character activated by ALT GR. (i.e. key "+ * ]" or key "1 ! |" )
This combination does not work.

Also, the default desktop is set to 24bit

Unfortunately, my new flat screen needs 1280x1024 pix but my old-old graphic card only allows 16 bit at this resolution. (cost of new card in 250 euros are guilty of this situation).
This must be the explanation.

Do you know something about acelerator?

Many thanks.
JOAQUIN

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:43 pm

Qemu 0.7.1 is out and a windows binary can be found here.

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:14 am

Here is my build of Qemu 0.7.1, see the README.KarLKoX to get further informations

Kqemu is enabled with my build.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:49 am

Well, I got the bugger working, now to get it updated and such

thanks for the soft!

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:40 am

KarLKoX wrote:Here is my build of Qemu 0.7.1, see the README.KarLKoX to get further informations

Wow... This build made a huge difference in speed on my PC running a P4 3.2GHz CPU. I did not notice a difference in speed until I started the "kqemu" service (BTW: I had to reboot my PC before I could issue the "net start kemu" command). Also, now my little app that performs a shutdown or reboot work without locking up the terminal!

Excellent work KarLKoX!

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:30 am

JNice work KarLKoX.

PureWinLin seems to be running better. Sound has a little static but these are little things. Nice work Beach.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:18 pm

I'll try the kemu update when I get home. I did notice that if you have an internet wireless connection, in order to download in firefox (via linux) you need to pause, then retry for it to start downloading

Other then that, this is quite sweet

Hmm I have a P4 dual 3.2Ghz computer as well, (Well spit anyways), and noticed no speed increase, I must be doing this wrong, I did everything, set services to run, booted up the disto via purewinlin.bat after extracting the kolox RAR file into the purelinwin file, and copying the sys to the drivers, etc, reboot, etc.. oh well.

Good news though, that desktop resizing works nicely

Now trying to figure out a way to make it automatically mount a windows partition on boot.

Oh, one question, I downloaded the registered version of purebasic for linux, but for some reason it looks like this distro cannot extract and install the compressed file. coLinux did this easily, click, run. But this one doesnt reconize the extension.