Re: Booting Eros in x86-emulators James Graves (ansible@xnet.com)
Thu, 18 May 2000 10:22:27 -0500 (CDT)

On 18 May 2000, Peter Makholm wrote:

> Does anyone play with eros in x86-emulators?
>
> I have tried booting Eros in bochs but it just died and I have no idea
> why. Has anyone successtories with eros and bochs?
>
> What about VMware?

It'd be interesting to get EROS running under bochs, because that just went open-source. However, the last time I tried it, I wasn't able to get it compiled. Also, network card support (NE2000) under bochs isn't complete.

I have VMware 2.0, and I was able to boot and run the ztstflop image under it. This was on a RedHat 6.2 system.

Of course, the LANCE Ethernet chipset that VMware emulates isn't supported. The driver seems to be a fairly straight-forward one, using DMA to transfer data to/from the card. Of course, I'll need to read more of the EROS source to see how easy it might be to port the driver.

Later,

James Graves