Setting up QEMU

The purpose of this tutorial is to setup KolibriOS in QEMU (virtual machine emulator).

Using command line

If you already familiar with QEMU but have toubles with net, simply add following options to the qemu start command:

-net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user

It should work fine. So the whole run command looks like this:

qemu -L . -m 128 -fda /path/to/kolibri.img -boot a -hda /path/to/c100.img -hdb /path/to/c100_2.img -localtime -vga vmware -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -soundhw ac97 -usb -usbdevice tablet

Where

-L .

BIOS, VGA BIOS and keymaps in current directory.

-m 128

Virtual RAM size to megs megabytes.

-fda /path/to/kolibri.img

Floppy disk image.

-boot a

Boot floppy first.

-hda /path/to/c100.img -hdb /path/to/c100_2.img

Hard disk image.

-localtime

Set virtual machine time to host machine time

-vga vmware

Emulating vga card.

-net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user

Net settings. ne2k_pci, RTL8139, i8255x, i8254x and Pcnet are all supported.

-soundhw ac97

Emulating sound hardware.

-usb -usbdevice tablet

The usb tablet HID device may be used to ease switching from one window to another on the host machine. (Mouse does not stay captured.)

Using Qemu Manager

Step by step tutorial follows! We’re going to need these programs/files:

• Qemu Manager – download it from www.davereyn.co.uk
• KolibriOS floppy disk image – www.kolibrios.org

The first thing we’re going to do is to setup KolibriOS virtual machine on Qemu Manager, so it’s assumed that you have installed it already.

Launch Qemu Manager and you will see the following window.

Click on the toolbar button to add a new machine. Then it will ask you to write the new virtual machine name:

Then click Next and in that window fill the Virtual Machine RAM textbox with a RAM needed, remember that KolibriOS support 8MB of RAM as a minimum, I suggest using 64Mb

Click Next and in this window check “This Virtual Machine Does Not Require A Virtual Drive”

In the next window don’t modify anything:

Click Next and in the following window click on “Save Virtual Machine” button

It will show you the following window:

Select the “Disk Configuration” tab and click on the shown button, which is for choosing our KolibriOS floppy image:

Then select the appropiate floppy image

It will warn you but just click YES to continue:

Next select “Boot from floppy disk”

Now just click Play, and let it fly!