http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listTopics/projects.vmware/discussion.general Posts for General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post98338 Will someone please help me to understand how to 1) compile the windows version of mkifsf_vmware and 2) how to use it and vmware.stub? I would like to create a 6.3sp3 ifs (with a photon application) that VMware Player 4.0.2 will boot. I was able to download the source for mkxfs, and have not been successfull at getting any of its decendants to compile. I must not be supplying the correct arguments to make. Thanks Rob Hoeye Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:55:53 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post98338 Rob Hoeye 2013-01-02T06:55:53Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92193 I want to run QNX 6.3 as a guest OS on VMware. The host OS is Windows NT. Will the QNX OS be gracefully shutdown when the host is shutdown? If not, can you provide me some guideline? Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:02:24 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post92193 Raoul Couraud 2012-03-19T21:02:24Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post89636 Dear QNX masters, I'm searching for a solution to let run QNX4 in VMWare ESXi and use the VNC access to the VMWare. Is there any solution for vmware_tools for QNX4 offering the possibility to use the Mouse in VNC? The Mouse is the only open issue. If I access a QNX4+Photon+VMware using VNC every movement of the mouse will result in a continuous movement of the cursor to the lower right corner. Best Regards, Klaus Pantleon Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:06:49 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post89636 Klaus Pantleon 2011-10-26T09:06:49Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post84226 I have made a os image and tring to boot from it on Neutrino650 target. After i Reset the target machine it boots from production_boot.ifs with an error message: Mount: can't Mount / (type qnx4) Mount: Possible reason: Invalid argument. How to resolve this ???? I have attached the the snapshot of the error. Related information: 1.Target is runtime and not for debug. 2.In dev/folder their is no hdt079 file, but instead it contains hdt0179 file. 3.I dont know whether QNX4 file system can be mounted on 6.5. 4. The .build file contains # # production_boot.build # # This boot build script is intended for production systems. # # How to use this file: # Save produciont_boot.build on a target as /boot/build/production_boot.build # Run "mkifs /boot/build/production_boot.build /boot/fs/production_boot.ifs" # to build the boot image. The production_boot.ifs is saved in SourceSafe # along with the production_boot.build script. It is included in the # MonitorSupport.tgz by the support-tarball.sh script. # # The build file for QNX Neutrino booting on a PC # [virtual=x86,bios +compress] boot = { startup-bios PATH=/proc/boot:/bin:/usr/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proc/boot:/lib:/usr/lib:/lib/dll procnto-instr } [+script] startup-script = { #display_msg " " #display_msg "Neutrino Inside! (QNX 6.3.0)" #display_msg " " procmgr_symlink ../../proc/boot/libc.so.3 /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2 #display_msg "---> Starting slogger" /proc/boot/slogger & waitfor /dev/slog #display_msg "---> Starting PCI Services" # # Normally seedres is needed for plug and play, # but it errors out on the Pioneer Monitor. # #seedres /proc/boot/pci-bios waitfor /dev/pci #display_msg "---> Starting Console Manager" /proc/boot/devc-con -n4 waitfor /dev/con1 reopen /dev/con1 #display_msg "---> Starting EIDE Driver" /proc/boot/devb-eide blk auto=partition dos exe=all cam quiet waitfor /dev/hd0 mount /dev/hd0t179 / #display_msg "---> Starting /etc/system/sysinit" ksh -c /etc/system/sysinit } libc.so libcam.so io-blk.so cam-disk.so fs-qnx4.so fs-qnx6.so fs-dos.so fs-ext2.so cam-cdrom.so fs-cd.so [data=c] seedres pci-bios devb-eide slogger ksh devc-con mount slogger Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:35:01 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post84226 Milind Gaonkar 2011-03-24T07:35:01Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post52729 Thanks Neil. I just want to change the BUFSIZ and recompile the entire glibc on qnx platform. How challenging can it be?? Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:23:22 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post52729 Dinkar Kumar Verma 2010-04-26T05:23:22Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post51279 On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 07:12 -0400, Dinkar Kumar Verma wrote: > I am trying to recompile the glibc-2.11.1 with some changes in the source code. > I have qnx-6.4.1 running on VMWare. > When I try to configure I get the following error. > *** The GNU C library is currently not available for this platform. > *** So far nobody cared to port it and if there is no volunteer it > *** might never happen. So, if you have interest to see glibc on > *** this platform visit > *** http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html > *** and join the group of porters > > Please let me know how can I get this done. > Is there any other C library that I can use apart from GNU C library that is ported for QNX. > > Thanks n Regards Porting a C library to a new O/S is not a small task. Porting glibc is an exceptionally large job (and I'm not even certain that it's possible). You might have more success with ulibc, newlib, or dietlibc -- but again it's a big job and not one that we've actually tried. Proper support for the loader (ldd) and for threads (and thread local storage specifically) are going to be particularly tricky. Overall, I'd advise strongly against trying. You might be better off just porting the bits that you need to QNX rather than the whole libc. What bits have you made custom changes to? Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:32:39 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post51279 Neil Schellenberger 2010-04-07T14:32:39Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post51255 I am trying to recompile the glibc-2.11.1 with some changes in the source code. I have qnx-6.4.1 running on VMWare. When I try to configure I get the following error. *** The GNU C library is currently not available for this platform. *** So far nobody cared to port it and if there is no volunteer it *** might never happen. So, if you have interest to see glibc on *** this platform visit *** http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html *** and join the group of porters Please let me know how can I get this done. Is there any other C library that I can use apart from GNU C library that is ported for QNX. Thanks n Regards Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:12:39 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post51255 Dinkar Kumar Verma 2010-04-07T11:12:39Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post48133 Hi, I am trying to install QNXv6.4.1 on compact flash on an Intel atom platform. There is a BusLogic SCSI controller driver update provided with the installation (mentioned in the release notes) i.e., included in the installation ISO image. To install this driver we need to update the driver: The steps are mentioned below 1. Boot from the installation CD. 2. On seeing the initial “Press space for options” message, press the space bar. 3. Choose to apply the driver update (F2). 4. Follow the instructions on the screen using /fs/cd0 (i.e. the installation media) as the source. Once the driver is updated the installation creates an updated boot image which includes the devb-btmm driver. During this phase of the installation i get the following error: REBUILDING BOOT IMAGE /hdisk/boot/build/qnxbase-drvup.build Line 5: Host file ’bios.boot’ not available. /qnxbase/bin/mkifs: failed (6979597 256) This is a problem even if i try to update a SATA driver which we have developed. The SATA driver update works fine witn QNX v6.4.0 with thr same set up. Has somebody seen this issue? Is there any workaround for this? Regards, Nagaraj. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:36:55 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post48133 Nagaraj Salotagi 2010-02-24T05:36:55Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42834 > -----Original Message----- > From: Senthil K [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 5:52 AM > To: general-vmware > Subject: Re: RE: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC > address. > > Hi, > > I am using two ethernet interfaces for some local testing only. They > are connected to two individual pcs. Each ethernet interface is > assigned with local IP addresses which are in different network. > > My connectivity is like this: > > |----------En0 --------------> connected to PC1 (IP - > 10.1.1.1) > QNX PC | > | ---------En1 --------------> connected to PC2 (IP - > 172.30.14.1) > > This QNX OS is installed in VmWare. This has two ethernet cards. > Interface names are En0 and En1. En0 and En1 are configured with a same > MAC address for e.g MAC: 00:04:01:00:00:10. You cannot have a network with non unique MAC address. Your network is broken. > > En0 has IP address 10.1.1.2 which is connected to PC1 IP address > 10.1.1.1 > En1 has IP address 172.30.14.2 which is connected to PC2 IP address > 172.30.14.1 > > With this setup I am able to send packets outside. But I am not > receiving any packets on En0 or En1. > > Please suggest some way to get this setup working. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42822 > Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:45:37 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42834 Mario Charest 2009-11-30T13:45:37Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42822 Hi, I am using two ethernet interfaces for some local testing only. They are connected to two individual pcs. Each ethernet interface is assigned with local IP addresses which are in different network. My connectivity is like this: |----------En0 --------------> connected to PC1 (IP - 10.1.1.1) QNX PC | | ---------En1 --------------> connected to PC2 (IP - 172.30.14.1) This QNX OS is installed in VmWare. This has two ethernet cards. Interface names are En0 and En1. En0 and En1 are configured with a same MAC address for e.g MAC: 00:04:01:00:00:10. En0 has IP address 10.1.1.2 which is connected to PC1 IP address 10.1.1.1 En1 has IP address 172.30.14.2 which is connected to PC2 IP address 172.30.14.1 With this setup I am able to send packets outside. But I am not receiving any packets on En0 or En1. Please suggest some way to get this setup working. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:52:14 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42822 Senthil K 2009-11-30T10:52:14Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42527 Just for your information: http://vmware-svga.sourceforge.net/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:12 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42527 Mike Gorchak 2009-11-25T13:07:12Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42305 > -----Original Message----- > From: Senthil K [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:37 AM > To: general-vmware > Subject: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC address. > > Hi, > > I have a PC (PC-1) which uses VMware with QNX as Guest OS. In this I > have two physical ethernet interfaces. > > The physical interfaces are mapped to QNX OS en0 and en1. > > Now I am configuring the MAC address for both ethernet interfaces with > the same MAC address. I have used the manual configuation option in the > VMware for this. > > I have connected one ethernet interface to another PC (PC-2). > > I am trying to ping from PC-2 to PC-1. I am not getting any response. > > If I do the same steps in QNX - OS (instead of VMware PC-1), ping is > successful. > > Can anyone help to resolve this issue. You cannot use two identical MAC addresses, that breaks the network. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42304 > Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:16 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42305 Mario Charest 2009-11-20T13:30:16Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42304 Hi, I have a PC (PC-1) which uses VMware with QNX as Guest OS. In this I have two physical ethernet interfaces. The physical interfaces are mapped to QNX OS en0 and en1. Now I am configuring the MAC address for both ethernet interfaces with the same MAC address. I have used the manual configuation option in the VMware for this. I have connected one ethernet interface to another PC (PC-2). I am trying to ping from PC-2 to PC-1. I am not getting any response. If I do the same steps in QNX - OS (instead of VMware PC-1), ping is successful. Can anyone help to resolve this issue. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37:12 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post42304 Senthil K 2009-11-20T12:37:12Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41729 Search on OpenQnx. Regards, Max -----Original Message----- From: Alain Achkar [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:27 AM To: general-vmware Subject: Where can I download the latest version of vmtools for QNX 6.4.1 ? _______________________________________________ General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41726 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:24:29 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41729 Max Feil 2009-11-10T17:24:29Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41726 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:27:28 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41726 Alain Achkar 2009-11-10T16:27:28Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41725 Hi, I'm running VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on Windows XP SP3 host. PC is Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel Core Duo E8400 @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM. I want to install QNX 6.4.1 in a VM and I am looking for advice on how to get the best performance out of my VM. 1. Guest operating system = Other. Version: Should I use 'Other' or 'Other 64' ? <quote> from the VMware manual: "If the operating system you plan to use is not listed, select Other for both guest operating system and version. For some operating systems, the operating system and VMware Tools are installed automatically after the virtual machine is created. See Easy Install Feature for Some Guest Operating Systems. Note Workstation supports 64-bit guest operating systems only in Workstation versions 5.5 and later, and only on host machines with supported processors. " </quote> 2. Should I select 1 or 2 processors? If I select 2, does the compiler (QCC and GCC) make use of SMP if I boot the qnxbasesmp.ifs ? 3. What is a recommended disk size (rough order of magnitude) for a full install including Momentics (I know we can't run the IDE anymore in 6.4.1 :( ) 4. Should I pre-allocate the disk or let VMware grow it as needed? Has anyone noticed any difference in preformance between the 2 options? Thanks! Alain. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:26:43 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post41725 Alain Achkar 2009-11-10T16:26:43Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32897 Thanks a lot! I read your post wrong. You are using ESXi4 and not ESXi3.4. Tomorrow I will switch to 64bit Hardware and use ESXi4, too. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:45:38 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32897 Klaus Pantleon 2009-06-30T21:45:38Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32896 This is where I downloaded esxi 3.4. see attached image Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:33:28 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32896 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-30T21:33:28Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32895 There are only links to 3.5 :( No previous veriosn of ESXi I find there. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:14:10 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32895 Klaus Pantleon 2009-06-30T21:14:10Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32894 I downloaded it from http://vmware.com/download/esxi/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:55 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32894 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-30T21:11:55Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32893 Do you know where I can download esxi3.4 from the vmware page? My dirty hack is working with the ypervisor but not with the windows setup tool. When I select "Edit Settings" and press "Save" the QNX4 vmware becames invalid. I expect that I only should use the old GUI. I saw a similar behaviour with the VMware workstation running on a SATA laptop in linux. The IDE was not offeres but after the manual add in the *.vmx the GUI suddenly offered the IDE also ;) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:05:02 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32893 Klaus Pantleon 2009-06-30T21:05:02Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32892 That is the nice thing esxi 3.4 also has IDE Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:42:31 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32892 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-30T20:42:31Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32891 And what kind of Fsys.* you are using? The ESX3.5 offers only SCSI environment. But you can manually add an ide harddisk. With the LSI or Buslogic SCSI environment I had no chance. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:30 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32891 Klaus Pantleon 2009-06-30T20:39:30Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32846 I started with a fresh install for the QNX 4.25 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:17:25 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32846 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-30T15:17:25Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32845 Hi There is a driver for the e1000 nic for qnx 4.25 I tried it and it did improve a little the speed. I guess phindows is really heavy on the nics Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:21 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32845 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-30T15:15:21Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32799 How did you managed it to install QNX4.25 into ESX4? I made it with ESX3.5 and it was a pain with uploading manually changed *.vmx and *.vmdk files. Actually I can use my QNX4.25 in the ESX-Server but I cannot change the settings using the VMWare Infrastructure GUI. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:07:42 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32799 Klaus Pantleon 2009-06-30T08:07:42Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32180 That's really cool, Rick! Colin ________________________________ From: Rick Duff [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] Sent: Sun 6/21/2009 12:34 PM To: general-vmware Subject: Port of VMW VMW is a collection of VMWare utilities which are written by the same person (Ken Kato) who runs the VM Back website (http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/index.html) and did the original work which we based the vmtool stuff on. vmw includes 3 utilities: vmw - command line access to vmware backdoor functions. Potentially useful in scripts vmftp - ftp client which treats the host shared folder like an ftp server. Really useful! vmshrink - access to the ability to shrink the filesystem backing file (in the host) to the curently used space in the guest. Only works with filesystem mounted as / right now. I have only done this in QNX 6. In fact it was done in QNX 6.3.2 running under VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro, so let me know if you have problems in other environments. Rick.. _______________________________________________ General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32179 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:30:50 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32180 Colin Burgess 2009-06-21T19:30:50Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32179 VMW is a collection of VMWare utilities which are written by the same person (Ken Kato) who runs the VM Back website (http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/index.html) and did the original work which we based the vmtool stuff on. vmw includes 3 utilities: vmw - command line access to vmware backdoor functions. Potentially useful in scripts vmftp - ftp client which treats the host shared folder like an ftp server. Really useful! vmshrink - access to the ability to shrink the filesystem backing file (in the host) to the curently used space in the guest. Only works with filesystem mounted as / right now. I have only done this in QNX 6. In fact it was done in QNX 6.3.2 running under VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro, so let me know if you have problems in other environments. Rick.. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:47 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32179 Rick Duff 2009-06-21T16:34:47Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32178 This is kinda like a day late and a dollar short but I am uploading a port of something called vmw which includes a vmftp program. This runs in QNX 6 and acts like an ftp client in QNX which sees the host shared folders. You can then transfer files that way if you choose. Rick.. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:29:00 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32178 Rick Duff 2009-06-21T16:29:00Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32015 I think vmware e1000 support is only available for 64 bit OSes. Don`t worry that the AMD (pcnet) driver shows 10Mbits, it will go faster. ________________________________________ From: Ernesto Juarez [community-noreply@qnx.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:54 PM To: general-vmware Subject: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown I will try to use a different virtual nic to see if that makes a difference. I am using the one by default and I think is getting only 10mbps connection I wil try to use the other options and check if the performance on the clients improves. Does anyone have experience using the E1000 virtual nic with QNX4? _______________________________________________ General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32014 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:28:12 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32015 Mario Charest 2009-06-18T00:28:12Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32014 I will try to use a different virtual nic to see if that makes a difference. I am using the one by default and I think is getting only 10mbps connection I wil try to use the other options and check if the performance on the clients improves. Does anyone have experience using the E1000 virtual nic with QNX4? Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:02 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32014 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-17T21:54:02Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32012 It may be the virtual network card on the host (the host software emulating the network card) is really working hard. Phindows is pretty network intensive (depending how much things change on your screen) and since you are using fake network hardware, it is a lot of work for the host. Just a thought. Rick.. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ernesto Juarez <community-noreply@qnx.com>wrote: > Hi > I am testing QNX4.25 on VMware esix4. I installed it and everything seems > to be working ok. I have been testing different applications and all of them > perform just as is they were running on physical machines. The problem I > have is when remote clients connect to the QNX host using phindows to use > some data display applications. The connections feel very slow in comparison > to running the host on a physical machine. The host for the virtual machines > is has much better hardware but still it feels very slow. Does anyone has an > idea why this happens? Is it maybe the video driver (I am using a vmware > video driver)? One thing I notice is when the clients connect the cpu on the > virtual host starts working really hard. > > Thanks in advance for your help > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32006 > > -- Rick Duff rgduff@gmail.com George Carlin<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_carlin.html> - "Electricity is really just organized lightning." Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:18 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32012 Rick Duff 2009-06-17T21:24:18Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32006 Hi I am testing QNX4.25 on VMware esix4. I installed it and everything seems to be working ok. I have been testing different applications and all of them perform just as is they were running on physical machines. The problem I have is when remote clients connect to the QNX host using phindows to use some data display applications. The connections feel very slow in comparison to running the host on a physical machine. The host for the virtual machines is has much better hardware but still it feels very slow. Does anyone has an idea why this happens? Is it maybe the video driver (I am using a vmware video driver)? One thing I notice is when the clients connect the cpu on the virtual host starts working really hard. Thanks in advance for your help Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:46:20 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32006 Ernesto Juarez 2009-06-17T20:46:20Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19330 Hi Colin Any idea on when you can release VMware.boot & VMWare.stub for QNX640. I created a VMWare IFS image using these files(VMware.boot & VMWare.stub) from a QNX 63x install in a QNX 640 Build environment. When I booted the VMWare image it did not work. It got hung at the Hit Esc for Altboot screen. I am assuming we need a QNX640 build of both of these files. Can you let us know when or where I can get these files? Thanks Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:36:47 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19330 Arvin Baalu 2009-01-05T07:36:47Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19296 Hi I have been experimenting with mkxfs_vmware and trying to create a bootable VMWare image from my IFS. There is a warning from mkxfs_vmware if my IFS image is greater than the Floppy disk size (1.44Mb). Subsequently, it doesn't work. It hangs at "Hit Esc for Altboot..." All the other methods I have seen people involve hacking dinit or some linux based tools to create a bootable VMware image. Typically they create a Harddrive image created by a hacked dinit. In general, what is the best way to create a Bootable VMWare image from my IFS (say size will range up to 20MB). Is this possible? Seems like it should be... Thanks Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:45:30 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post19296 Arvin Baalu 2009-01-01T05:45:30Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post17046 > host stuff.(6.3.2 installed smoothly), installation on the last version of > Sun VirtualBox failed with system dump and shutdown at the very beginning. I Can confirm problems with SUN's VirtualBox. My college reported me "Guru Meditation" (crash) of VirtualBox and several times QNX was not able to detect a virtual HDD. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:25:31 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post17046 Andrew Golovnia 2008-11-21T11:25:31Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post17045 > I'm not sure if it is a correct place for discussion of this topic. Anyway, > did anybody try QNX 6.4 on MS VPC 2007 SP1? I got strange results (see > attachment). At the same time 6.3.2 still works very well? What could be wrong > ? I have QNX 6.3.2 and 6.4.0 on VPC installed without problems you mentioned here. I have noticed another problem with MS VPC 2007 SP1: Network become unavailable for some minutes and turns available back for similar period of time, and so on. Windows log was full of messages like: "Bad mac address [blah-blah], network disconnected"... The problem was solved by installing MS VPC 2007 (without SP1) instead. I guess it was a some kind of conflict with firewall, or some new "smart" feature in VPC's SP... hard to say. -- WBR, AG Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:22:09 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post17045 Andrew Golovnia 2008-11-21T11:22:09Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post16291 I use 'VMware' software to run my QNX as target, and I follow your 'Memory Analysis' Tutorial. And it is ok until select the project run as 'C/C++ QNX QConn'. The problem is there are no target list in the Target options if I select "filter targets based on C/C++ Application selection", and if I don't select that it show me the target that is not connected(I creat the target according to the VMware). But I have run QNX on the VMware and login as root and run 'qconn' later. My host OS is windows XP, and it show me that host have connect with the target machine. I don't konw why? Waiting for help. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:46:00 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post16291 qiu niuxi 2008-11-10T09:46:00Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13297 The problem solved. I used a QNX installation CD which became old - I started using this CD at 2001.... Earlier I never faced any problems with this installation CD. I downloaded a new version of CD from this site dated June 2008, and then successfully installed QNX. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:29:44 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13297 ildar Gabdullin 2008-09-12T00:29:44Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13227 I forgot to mention that for QNX in hardware options a CD drive was also selected, of course... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:06:26 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13227 ildar Gabdullin 2008-09-11T02:06:26Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13225 I got a laptop: - Intel C2D L7500 - Intel 965 graphics - 1024 Gb RAM - 120 Gb HDD (SATA AHCI) - WinXP SP3 - VmWare Workstation 6.0.0 - NO floppy - CD drive (on Primary IDE channel) In VmWare, I created a virtual HDD 1 Gb and reserved 64 Mb RAM for QNX 4.24. For QNX, in the hardware options I selected only display, virtual HDD, memory & one processor. After completion of scanning the hardware, setup program displays a popup "Please insert the QNX Install CD into the CD Rom Drive". According to "QNX RTOS 4 Knowledge Base" (http://www.qnx.com/developers/qnx4/qnx4kb/solution.html?code=9512): ----------------------------------------------------- This is a bug with the installer where the Fsys.* drivers have problems with the CD-ROM drive being on the secondary IDE channel, or on a SCSI chain and mounted improperly. ----------------------------------------------------- First, my CD drive was on primary channel. But anyway, I tried all possible combinations for HDD & CD: HDD - IDE 0.0, CD - IDE 0.1 HDD - IDE 0.1, CD - IDE 0.0 HDD - IDE 1.0, CD - IDE 1.1 HDD - IDE 1.1, CD - IDE 1.0 But it did not help. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:46:50 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post13225 ildar Gabdullin 2008-09-11T01:46:50Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post11407 BTW, I tried to install 6.4 on some other free virtualizers (I was so active in my search not only by curiositybecause my VMWare license expired three days ago). Installation on QEMU 0.9.0 failed (installer froze) while installing host stuff.(6.3.2 installed smoothly), installation on the last version of Sun VirtualBox failed with system dump and shutdown at the very beginning. I used ISO image from July, 31 Host Vista Home Premium. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:50:21 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post11407 Alex Chapiro 2008-08-04T19:50:21Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post11203 I'm not sure if it is a correct place for discussion of this topic. Anyway, did anybody try QNX 6.4 on MS VPC 2007 SP1? I got strange results (see attachment). At the same time 6.3.2 still works very well? What could be wrong? Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:56:38 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post11203 Alex Chapiro 2008-07-29T17:56:38Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post8288 Hello, I explain you my problem At work we used to virtualise a Qnx Pc on a Centos system using vmware. And then after few moments, the directional arrow changes to numerical values (up become 8, down become 2, left become 4, right become 6) the only way to solve the problem is to reboot the qnx machine. and after few time the problem react. You can pass trought the problem by desactivate the numeric pad and to use it as a directional pad but i don't want to follow that solution. i need the numeric pad to work and i don't want to switch between tne two way of using the pad. Is someone have the same problem? did you find a solution? Thanks answering my question and excuse my english i'm french Wed, 21 May 2008 02:38:32 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post8288 Tevaearai eritaia 2008-05-21T02:38:32Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7643 I normally use fs-cifs It would be nice if someone ported the hgfs (Host-Guest Filesystem), but that has yet to be done. A combination of fs-cifs and the clipboard (download the vmtool) works pretty well though. Cheers, Colin _____ From: Kevin Miller [mailto:kevin.miller@transcore.com] Sent: Sat 03/05/2008 4:14 PM To: general-vmware Subject: File transfers between QNX guest and Windows host Is there a preferred way to transfer files between a QNX guest OS and a Windows host? Something like making a DOS partition visible to both OSs, which is how I used to do it when I had a dual-boot machine, would be nice. Of course, I can always use FTP... _______________________________________________ General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7642 <http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7642> Sat, 03 May 2008 20:28:23 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7643 Colin Burgess 2008-05-03T20:28:23Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7642 Is there a preferred way to transfer files between a QNX guest OS and a Windows host? Something like making a DOS partition visible to both OSs, which is how I used to do it when I had a dual-boot machine, would be nice. Of course, I can always use FTP... Sat, 03 May 2008 20:14:18 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7642 Kevin Miller 2008-05-03T20:14:18Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7619 I put some sleeps into sysinit.1, and started Net.ether2100 with no arguments, and now the network is working just fine. Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:51 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7619 Kevin Miller 2008-05-02T19:00:51Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7615 Turns out that I had two problems. 1) I hadn't double-clicked on the QNX VM window, so the keyboard was not responding, so I couldn't bring up the options menu. 2) Once I brought up the options menu, selecting "VGA-16 only" did the trick. The rest of the install went smoothly. Now the issue is that the network driver starts up, but I can't access the network. Fri, 02 May 2008 17:58:20 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7615 Kevin Miller 2008-05-02T17:58:20Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7534 I am using the trial version of VMware 6, under Vista, and am trying to install the May 2001 version of 4.25 development system. It gets as far as "Decompressing Autodetecting", then the screen goes black, and nothing else happens. If anyone has any suggestions as to what might be the problem, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:56:09 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7534 Kevin Miller 2008-04-30T21:56:09Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7058 > Hello, > > I remember some efforts have been made to run QNX on VM-Ware server and ESX > versions. One of the main problems was the emulated LSI SCSI controller which > was not supported by any driver. Has anyone found a way around this issue yet? > > > Thanks, > > Bjoern It can be made to work on ESX, but it takes some voodoo work. The install CD doesn't detect the LSI controler. In fact the .boot file doesn't even have the necessary driver. But you can boot from the CD and then run the OS from it. Once that done you need to start devb-btmm btmm ioport=1060,irq=9. I guess ioport and irq could change. Unfortunately devb-btmm doesn't support pci vendor and device it. Once that's done, you need to manually setup the HD ( fdisk, dinit, etc ) and then via QNET make a copy of another machine HD content. And then finally you need to make a custom boot image and start devb-btmm before diskboot: devb-btmm blk auto=partition btmm ioport=1060,irq=9 waitfor /dev/hd0t79 diskboot.... - Mario Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:37:51 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7058 Mario Charest 2008-04-18T15:37:51Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7002 > Hello, > > I remember some efforts have been made to run QNX on VM-Ware server and ESX > versions. One of the main problems was the emulated LSI SCSI controller which > was not supported by any driver. Has anyone found a way around this issue yet? > > > Thanks, > > Bjoern The following thread is my current take on making QNX 6.3.2 it work on ESX. http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.bsp/discussion.bsp.topc2475 - Mario Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:48 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post7002 Mario Charest 2008-04-17T17:31:48Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6980 > Got SMP up and running on vmware. Thanks. Unfortunately, compiling is so > much slower than with just one core. I suspect that between QNX and vmware, > there's much more cache thrashing and pipeline stalls. > > I'd be curious to hear if anyone has had more success. > Cheers, > -david I read somewhere that VMware recommand to have one more extra core. Thus if you set your virtual machine to 2 you should have 3 cores ;-) Also I find that vmware benifit a lots from tunning devb-eide cache. You really want your vm to do as little IO as possible. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:38:34 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6980 Mario Charest 2008-04-17T14:38:34Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6358 Got SMP up and running on vmware. Thanks. Unfortunately, compiling is so much slower than with just one core. I suspect that between QNX and vmware, there's much more cache thrashing and pipeline stalls. I'd be curious to hear if anyone has had more success. Cheers, -david Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:59:33 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6358 David Alessio 2008-04-01T21:59:33Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6196 mkifsf_vmware is supplied as source in utils/m/mkxfs However I believe that vmware.stub is still missing. Here it is, put it in the same dir as vmware.boot David Alessio wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Any progress on releasing the vmware filter? I'm running 632 on my HP > tx1000 (AMD Turion 64) and I'd like try an SMP kernel in the hope that > compile times will go down. > > I tried creating a new boot image, procnto-smp comes up with 2 cores, > but it boots very sloooooly, I suspect it has something to do with > bios.boot. > > Cheers, > -david > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6122 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:32:50 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6196 Colin Burgess 2008-03-27T13:32:50Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6122 Hi Colin, Any progress on releasing the vmware filter? I'm running 632 on my HP tx1000 (AMD Turion 64) and I'd like try an SMP kernel in the hope that compile times will go down. I tried creating a new boot image, procnto-smp comes up with 2 cores, but it boots very sloooooly, I suspect it has something to do with bios.boot. Cheers, -david Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:52 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6122 David Alessio 2008-03-26T02:09:52Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6115 Keith, Can you please tell what was the change involved in the .vmx file for the SCSI device? Thanks Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:27:05 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post6115 Maneesh Anand K N 2008-03-25T18:27:05Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5208 Some people have already ported the open-vm-tools to NetBSD. The source is part of of the pkgsrc project: http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/open-vm-tools There are about 1000 lines of patches. But as QNX is more like NetBSD than Linux i would assume that they work in the right direction. There is a related project on this community site named pkgsrc, too. I want to share this information to avoid waste of resources. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:40 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5208 Christian Leutloff 2008-02-22T15:30:40Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5179 I use VMware server extensively. So far I'm running QNX4, 6.2.1 and 6.3.x. It's been rock solid. The IDE emulation works just fine. It's the equivalent of VMware Workstation 5, I believe. I did actually have the SCSI driver going. That was a while ago and may have only been workstation. And I think there was some .vmx file option to change the driver from LSI to something we supported. But since the IDE works so well (and according to VMware there is no performance difference between SCSI and IDE) I didn't pursue it any further. This is using VMware Server 1.0.2 I have no experience with ESX, though. Given that you are supposed to be able to move VMs around I would be rather surprised if it was radically different... Hope that helps, Keith Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:05:03 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5179 Keith Russell 2008-02-21T13:05:03Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5171 Hello Rick, Nice to see you back in the game. Can you kindly re-issue the previous ACPI driver. Many people is looking for the source code previously on the http://projects.qnxzone.com/projects/phan/. -Joseph Wu Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:40 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5171 Tsung-Hsun Wu 2008-02-21T05:54:40Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5170 Hello Rick, Nice to see you back in the game. Can you kindly re-issue the previous ACPI driver. Many people is looking for the source code previously on the http://projects.qnxzone.com/projects/phan/. -Joseph Wu Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:38 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5170 Tsung-Hsun Wu 2008-02-21T05:54:38Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5169 Hello Rick, Nice to see you back in the game. Can you kindly re-issue the previous ACPI driver. Many people is looking for the source code previously on the http://projects.qnxzone.com/projects/phan/. -Joseph Wu Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:38 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5169 Tsung-Hsun Wu 2008-02-21T05:54:38Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5164 Were you using the IDE rather than SCSI emulation? Does VSX server emulate IDE at all? What about ESX? Alex Chapiro wrote: > I recently used to use for Neutrino emulation VMWare server 2.0 Beta > during couple of months, and I don't remember any serious problem > besides regular bugs usual for any beta version. > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5162 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:17:36 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5164 Colin Burgess 2008-02-21T02:17:36Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5162 I recently used to use for Neutrino emulation VMWare server 2.0 Beta during couple of months, and I don't remember any serious problem besides regular bugs usual for any beta version. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:46:00 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5162 Alex Chapiro 2008-02-20T23:46:00Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5057 Hello, I remember some efforts have been made to run QNX on VM-Ware server and ESX versions. One of the main problems was the emulated LSI SCSI controller which was not supported by any driver. Has anyone found a way around this issue yet? Thanks, Bjoern Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:20:53 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post5057 Bjoern Weber 2008-02-15T11:20:53Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post3817 Hello Rick, I am using QNX 4.25 on VMware Workstation 4.0 with Windows XP host OS. I am running the vmtoold , i am able to move the mouse but the time is not sync with the host system and the clip board doesnt work . do you have any clue? Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:41:10 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post3817 Dj Reddy 2007-12-17T12:41:10Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2729 Actully it seems that VMCI is not included in open-vm-tools by now. Best regards, Alexey Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:19:03 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2729 Alexey Yahno 2007-11-17T10:19:03Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2719 Once you have the vmtoold compiled in QNX6, you should just run it in the background like any daemon process. It will do a couple things for you. It will communicate with the host and share time sync info - this means your clock in the guest OS will stay synced with the host OS. It will also share clipboard info - if you cut something in photon, you should be able to paste it in Windows or vice versa. Lastly if you have turned on the mouse grab/ungrab feature in your preferences, the mouse will automatically be grabbed when you move over the vmware window and leave without help when you exit the window. You need to run the daemon as root if you want the time syncing feature to work and you need to run it in a photon environment if you want the cut and paste and mouse grabbing to work. I usually install it setuid root and start it when I log into photon. Rick.. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:52:22 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2719 Rick Duff 2007-11-16T20:52:22Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2718 Sorry, I have been a bit busy lately and not replied quicker. I am currently working on porting at least the library level support from the open-vm-tools project to QNX 6. This should allow us to use any of those libraries to write applications which can become aware of the fact they are in a VM. I believe this includes the VMCI stuff, but am not 100% sure. Rick.. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:48:00 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2718 Rick Duff 2007-11-16T20:48:00Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2716 I'll let some else answer your questions about VMWare, but I'll tackle the names. As I frequently whine to the developers, there really is no such thing as QNX 6; it's really QNX Neutrino, and the current version is 6.3. Rob Krten wrote his Getting Started book when QNX Neutrino 2 was the latest version, but most -- if not all -- of the information still applies. QNX 4 is a completely different kettle of fish. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:38:40 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2716 Steve Reid 2007-11-16T20:38:40Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2714 Hello, I just downloaded an installed the QNX Neutrino Host, and installed into vmware... Intending to sound completely clueless (cause I am...) uhm... what do I do next to get the easy switching to/from the window and copy/paste stuff working...? Presumably I compile the vmtool.c and/or vmtoold.c somehow / somewhere, and take the results and put it somewhere to be loaded either manually or (hopefully) via some config file of some sort...? :) Any help/hints/pointers much appreciated... I *am* certainly glad to see it boot up and detect the vmware video, though! :) Booted up and running on the first try is always a good sign. :) PS - if someone knows how this relates to "QNX Neutrino 2" - as in the book I saw "A Guide for Realtime Programmers" - I would be interested to know... Since this seems to indicate QNX 6, and in some places QNX 4, but not specifically "Neutrino 2" anywhere obvious..(?) Thanks & Cheers! Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:21:10 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2714 Andrew Derry 2007-11-16T20:21:10Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2493 I’ve faced the necessity to communicate application that runs inside VMWare/QNX with the programs running on host system, Windows in my case. VMware tools for Windows and Linux guest operation system allow to use VMCI (Virtual Machine Communication Interface). It would be good to have something similar (or the same) on QNX in vmware. And also it’s interesting is it possible to adopt for this purpose clipboard sharing mechanism that is already implemented in vmtool and how efficiently does it work? And if it is possible, what is more efficient, network communication or this kind of communication? Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:26:42 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post2493 Alexey Yahno 2007-11-07T09:26:42Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1878 Aye... Garry Turcotte wrote: > > True, but it doesn't work during installation or booting... :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Burgess [mailto:cburgess@qnx.com] > Sent: October 9, 2007 9:43 AM > To: general-vmware > Subject: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound > > Yes, but the ANSI code has the benefit of working when you're native on a > laptop too... > > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1877 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:53:46 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1878 Colin Burgess 2007-10-09T13:53:46Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1877 True, but it doesn't work during installation or booting... :-) -----Original Message----- From: Colin Burgess [mailto:cburgess@qnx.com] Sent: October 9, 2007 9:43 AM To: general-vmware Subject: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound Yes, but the ANSI code has the benefit of working when you're native on a laptop too... Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:46:18 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1877 Garry Turcotte 2007-10-09T13:46:18Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1876 Yes, but the ANSI code has the benefit of working when you're native on a laptop too... Garry Turcotte wrote: > > Or the vmware option... > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1664 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Burgess [mailto:cburgess@qnx.com] > Sent: October 9, 2007 9:11 AM > To: general-vmware > Subject: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound > > printf %c[=1;1;B 0×1b > /dev/con1 > > will make the bell pretty much silent (there might be a slight click) > > http://sendreceivereply.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/more-on-beep/ > > Dennis Kellly wrote: > > > > When running the Momentics install (6.3.2) under VMware on my laptop, > > the terminal ascii "BEL" character is so loud it wakes up everyone in > > the room. I have told VMware not to use sound. I have tried to set > > audio properties under photon (mixer) but nothing I found quiets it. > > (To test, open a terminal and simply press <backspace> at the prompt.) > > > > Short of recompiling some module (not sure which one), has anyone > > found a solution for this? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General > > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1868 > > > > -- > cburgess@qnx.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1869 > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1873 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:43:10 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1876 Colin Burgess 2007-10-09T13:43:10Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1873 Or the vmware option... http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1664 -----Original Message----- From: Colin Burgess [mailto:cburgess@qnx.com] Sent: October 9, 2007 9:11 AM To: general-vmware Subject: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound printf %c[=1;1;B 0×1b > /dev/con1 will make the bell pretty much silent (there might be a slight click) http://sendreceivereply.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/more-on-beep/ Dennis Kellly wrote: > > When running the Momentics install (6.3.2) under VMware on my laptop, > the terminal ascii "BEL" character is so loud it wakes up everyone in > the room. I have told VMware not to use sound. I have tried to set > audio properties under photon (mixer) but nothing I found quiets it. > (To test, open a terminal and simply press <backspace> at the prompt.) > > Short of recompiling some module (not sure which one), has anyone > found a solution for this? > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1868 > -- cburgess@qnx.com _______________________________________________ General http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1869 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:34:18 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1873 Garry Turcotte 2007-10-09T13:34:18Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1871 Thanks. Much better!!! I was trying to do it with termios but didn't succeed. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:33:35 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1871 Dennis Kellly 2007-10-09T13:33:35Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1869 printf %c[=1;1;B 0×1b > /dev/con1 will make the bell pretty much silent (there might be a slight click) http://sendreceivereply.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/more-on-beep/ Dennis Kellly wrote: > > When running the Momentics install (6.3.2) under VMware on my laptop, > the terminal ascii "BEL" character is so loud it wakes up everyone in > the room. I have told VMware not to use sound. I have tried to set > audio properties under photon (mixer) but nothing I found quiets it. > (To test, open a terminal and simply press <backspace> at the prompt.) > > Short of recompiling some module (not sure which one), has anyone > found a solution for this? > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1868 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:10:30 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1869 Colin Burgess 2007-10-09T13:10:30Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1868 When running the Momentics install (6.3.2) under VMware on my laptop, the terminal ascii "BEL" character is so loud it wakes up everyone in the room. I have told VMware not to use sound. I have tried to set audio properties under photon (mixer) but nothing I found quiets it. (To test, open a terminal and simply press <backspace> at the prompt.) Short of recompiling some module (not sure which one), has anyone found a solution for this? Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:55:30 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1868 Dennis Kellly 2007-10-09T12:55:30Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1826 Hi all. XP seems to be the best platform for running VMware. I run VM WS6 on an x64 XP Pro machine. Using the x64 allows me to install more memory (currently at 8GB). I have created a VM Team consisting of eight virtual machines (1 2003 Server, 1 XP Pro, and 6 QNX 6.3. I have two virtual networks setup. All QNX VM's talk over virtual LAN 2. One of the QNX VM's has a seond virtual NIC that is used to talk to the Windows VM's. All works great. Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:03:09 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1826 James VanOeffelen 2007-10-05T19:03:09Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1755 > > While playing with vmtoold, I realized that the cursor position was going to > > > the last known location when the QNX regained focus. This meant that when > you > > left the QNX window in one location, when you returned, the mouse would > jump > > to the location it was when you left. > > > > The reason I never noticed is because often you leave and enter near the > same > > location. > > > > Anyway, it is fixed in the source. I didn't update the package. > > > > Rick.. > > > Where in the svn tree does it lives? LOL - it is the only thing in the vmware repo. ;-) Look under the Source Code link at the top of the page. vmware/old/vmtool/vmtoold.c Rick.. Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:56:20 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1755 Rick Duff 2007-10-02T13:56:20Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1752 > While playing with vmtoold, I realized that the cursor position was going to > the last known location when the QNX regained focus. This meant that when you > left the QNX window in one location, when you returned, the mouse would jump > to the location it was when you left. > > The reason I never noticed is because often you leave and enter near the same > location. > > Anyway, it is fixed in the source. I didn't update the package. > > Rick.. Where in the svn tree does it lives? Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:08:29 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1752 Mario Charest 2007-10-02T13:08:29Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1659 vmware.boot is simply bios.boot with a little extra in it to set the filter to mkifsf_vmware, which creates a bootable floppy image. we don't ship mkifsf_vmware though... although you can build it in utils/m/mkxfs... if you've managed to build a windows version... *SIGH* the tangled web... It also requires something called vmware.stub which is also not shipped. It's on my todo to get a rational strategy for getting these pieces out... Rick Duff wrote: > > I noticed there is a program (if that is the right name for it) called > vmware.boot in /boot/sys. Should we build a different os image and > use this instead of bios.boot? > > If so, why? What does this do differently than bios.boot? > If not, what is this for? > > Inquiring minds (or perhaps bored ones) want to know.. > > Rick.. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General > http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1658 > -- cburgess@qnx.com Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:23:37 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1659 Colin Burgess 2007-09-27T19:23:37Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1658 I noticed there is a program (if that is the right name for it) called vmware.boot in /boot/sys. Should we build a different os image and use this instead of bios.boot? If so, why? What does this do differently than bios.boot? If not, what is this for? Inquiring minds (or perhaps bored ones) want to know.. Rick.. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:19:37 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1658 Rick Duff 2007-09-27T19:19:37Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1615 > I don't want to sound to nieve, but I would like to know a bit more about why > and what development is needed for QNX 6.3 under VMware. Is there such a > thing as a virtual driver, say for video or hard drive, that is specific to > VMware? Also, what is this vmtoold you are refering to? > > While we're on the subject, could a QNX 6.3 network be created between two QNX > VM's inside of VMware, or even between one inside and one outside? I once had 4 QNX4 vm machines running at the same time and exchanging data ( for testing automap ) > > Finally, is there a particular host for VM that works best, ie. Linux vs. XP? Browsing the VmWare forum it seems XP is best. Some recommend having a separate HD to hold the vm filesystem. Also lots of RAM is the key. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:45:14 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1615 Mario Charest 2007-09-26T14:45:14Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1574 > I don't want to sound to nieve, but I would like to know a bit more about why > and what development is needed for QNX 6.3 under VMware. Is there such a > thing as a virtual driver, say for video or hard drive, that is specific to > VMware? Also, what is this vmtoold you are refering to? Yes, there are specific drivers which can be written to "know" they are in a vm and are better at accelarating because of that. devg-vmware.so is an example (video driver). vmtoold is a program which myself and others wrote a couple years ago which provides some of the functionality that VMware had been providing for other guest OSs. In particular, it syncs the time between the host and guest OS. It also shares (somewhat lamely) the clipboard between the two - you can cut in QNX and paste in Windows and vice versa. Lastly it manages grabbing and ungrabbing the mouse so you can quickly move between QNX and Windows without any extra keystrokes (which is the default). > > While we're on the subject, could a QNX 6.3 network be created between two QNX > VM's inside of VMware, or even between one inside and one outside? I have created a network of QNX virtual instances running on my laptop to demonstrate a shared distributed database application I wrote - so yes. We also use it to connect to our external hardware (via serial or tcpip) occasionally. > > Finally, is there a particular host for VM that works best, ie. Linux vs. XP? I have only played with the Windows version so I can't comment on that. If they used the same license for both, I could experiment, but right now I need to use Windows (at work anyway), so this gives me the best of both. Rick.. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:19:01 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1574 Rick Duff 2007-09-25T15:19:01Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1566 I don't want to sound to nieve, but I would like to know a bit more about why and what development is needed for QNX 6.3 under VMware. Is there such a thing as a virtual driver, say for video or hard drive, that is specific to VMware? Also, what is this vmtoold you are refering to? While we're on the subject, could a QNX 6.3 network be created between two QNX VM's inside of VMware, or even between one inside and one outside? Finally, is there a particular host for VM that works best, ie. Linux vs. XP? Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:20:50 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1566 Mitchell Schoenbrun 2007-09-25T14:20:50Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1555 While playing with vmtoold, I realized that the cursor position was going to the last known location when the QNX regained focus. This meant that when you left the QNX window in one location, when you returned, the mouse would jump to the location it was when you left. The reason I never noticed is because often you leave and enter near the same location. Anyway, it is fixed in the source. I didn't update the package. Rick.. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:30:12 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1555 Rick Duff 2007-09-25T04:30:12Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1468 > > What is the status of the project. Who has done what so far? What's the plan. > Does somebody has a plan? At best the status is literally just starting. I felt with the release of Open VM Tools and QNX's new site, there was an opportunity to enhance the work I had done a couple years ago. I talked to QSS about creating a project site here for this work and that is what we have. I uploaded the old version of my vmtoold and such as a starting point. QSS has also commited to providing their drivers to this project as well. Going forward we need to collect some interested developers and decide how we want to extend the support for QNX in VMware. Things such as drag and drop files and a better integration to the VMware api are easy first steps (well, not sure how easy the dnd stuff is). I don't see a pure port of Open VM Tools as viable as they are more about working with XWindows and linux kernel mods. I do think there is a lot of valuable information to be gleaned from that project tho. If we end up with a lot of interest from the right people, we could even consider looking at adding paravirtualization hooks into the QNX kernel to help it run even better under a virtual environment (the information and sources are all now out there). Anyway, first off, we need to get enough interest to see who can help with what, and mainly to determine what is next. Rick.. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:31:46 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1468 Rick Duff 2007-09-20T19:31:46Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1465 What is the status of the project. Who has done what so far? What's the plan. Does somebody has a plan? - Mario Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:51:08 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1465 Mario Charest 2007-09-20T17:51:08Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1458 Thanks. The original vmtoold is already online here (and in svn) http://community.qnx.com/sf/frs/do/listReleases/projects.vmware/frs.old_qnx_vmtools_pkg It may be the basis for expansion using information and code gleaned from the Open VM Tools project - or not. ;-) That is all part of the discussion here. Rick.. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:22:09 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1458 Rick Duff 2007-09-20T16:22:09Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1457 Hello Rick, Nice to see you back in the game. Do you plan on re-issuing a version of vmtoold? - Mario Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:16:02 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1457 Mario Charest 2007-09-20T15:16:02Z http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1445 The purpose of this forum is to provide a place to discuss new ideas and further development of tools and drivers to aid in running QNX under VMware. Rick.. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:11:26 GMT http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1445 Rick Duff 2007-09-20T05:11:26Z