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post122373: QNX 7.1 on beaglebone black

ajit raghav(deleted) — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:47:54 GMT

Hi, I need to flash qnx7.1 on beaglebone black. Can someone pls guide which document to start with.

I would like to know below things:

1.  downloading qnx source (didn't receive evaluation license yet)

2.  compiling and building for beaglebone black platform

3.  flashing the images to sd card and boot beaglebone black

4.  changes need to be made in startup file and IPL files for enabling basic UART (for printing logs on console - minicom)

5.  any document reference to understand any basic device driver code flow

post120907: Re: QNX 6.5.0SP1 Installation in a Vmware

rushabh rupani(deleted) — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 09:09:53 GMT

QNX® Software Development Platform for x86 Targets 6.5.0 Service Pack 1: Installation Note — QNX® Neutrino® Hosts

Date of this edition: June 18, 2012

Target OS: This development suite produces software that's compatible with x86 targets that are running QNX® Neutrino® 6.5.0 SP1.

Host OS: You can install this package in an empty partition on your system.

You can also install the QNX Neutrino RTOS as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 6.5 or 7.0, VMWare Player 3.0, and Microsoft VirtualPC 2007. To ensure that VMware is supported for your host, search the compatibility guide located at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php. If you find problems with any virtualization environment, please post your findings in one of the forums in our Foundry27 community website.

post119254: Re: QNX 6.5.0SP1 Installation in a Vmware

manas sahoo — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:16:37 GMT

I got it

http://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/inst_5193_1.html

post119253: QNX 6.5.0SP1 Installation in a Vmware

manas sahoo — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:11:31 GMT

Hi,

I have installed QNX 6.5 in a VMware from the ISO image. Now I want to install the 6.5.0 SP1 in the VMware. From where can I download the "qnxsdp-6.5.0SP1-nnnnnnnnnnnn-nto.sh" file?

regards,

Manas

post119252: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

manas sahoo — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:09:02 GMT

I think my issues are related to clubbing of 6.5 & 6.5SP1 images. After working with only 6.5 , its working ok.

-----Original Message-----

From: Sahoo, Manas R (GE Power)

Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:35 PM

To: general-vmware@community.qnx.com

Subject: RE: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

Hi,

For QNX running in Vmware, there are 3 IFS images , qnxbasesmp.ifs.

Can you please provide the steps to build the IFS image. I am trying to build the IFS, using the qnxbasesmp.build file. But the generated IFS file is not working.

Can I have the steps please?

Regards,

Manas

-----Original Message-----

From: Steve Reid <community-noreply@qnx.com>

Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 7:09 PM

To: general-vmware <general-vmware@community.qnx.com>

Subject: EXT: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

The buildfiles are under /boot/build in 6.5.

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post119241: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

manas sahoo — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:20:32 GMT

Hi,

For QNX running in Vmware, there are 3 IFS images , qnxbasesmp.ifs.

Can you please provide the steps to build the IFS image. I am trying to build the IFS, using the qnxbasesmp.build file. But the generated IFS file is not working.

Can I have the steps please?

Regards,

Manas

-----Original Message-----

From: Steve Reid <community-noreply@qnx.com>

Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 7:09 PM

To: general-vmware <general-vmware@community.qnx.com>

Subject: EXT: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

The buildfiles are under /boot/build in 6.5.

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post119234: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

manas sahoo — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:21:17 GMT

When I use this build file "qnxbasesmp.build" to make my own IFS image. I see this error while booting from this IFS "/.diskroot file for root not found on any filesystem".

If I boot the existing IFS images (ex. Qnxbasesmp), the VM boots Ok.

Please guide to correct the error.

regards,

Manas

-----Original Message-----

From: Steve Reid <community-noreply@qnx.com>

Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 7:09 PM

To: general-vmware <general-vmware@community.qnx.com>

Subject: EXT: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

The buildfiles are under /boot/build in 6.5.

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post119218: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

manas sahoo — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:29:35 GMT

Thanks Steve.

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Subject: EXT: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

The buildfiles are under /boot/build in 6.5.

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post119214: Re: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

Steve Reid(deleted) — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:39:07 GMT

The buildfiles are under /boot/build in 6.5.

post119213: Bootloadmaster.build files for QNX VM IFS images

manas sahoo — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:22:36 GMT

Hi, I installed QNX 6.5 in a VMware from QNX6.5 ISO, into the hard disk. When I boot up it gives me options to boot

qnxbase.ifs, qnxsmp.ifs etc. I want to make my own IFS to boot from. So, can you please provide the .build files of existing IFS images (qnxbase /smp ifs), which is already in the target.

Regatds,

Manas

post116386: Re: Create a bootable USB stick with the Vmware QNX 6.6 iso file

Amin Zaghari — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:45:46 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried this:

http://www.qnx.com/support/knowledgebase.html?id=50130000000Smi2

Amin

post115957: Create a bootable USB stick with the Vmware QNX 6.6 iso file

Long Peng(deleted) — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:41:10 GMT

Dear Friends,

Do you have any way to create a bootable USB stick with the Vmware QNX 6.6 iso file?

Thanks in advance.

post113107: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Steve Reid(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:48:00 GMT

Yes, that's right.

post113106: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Eric Poole(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:43:16 GMT

> 6.6 doesn't include a self-hosted development system. You have to develop your

> applications on a Windows or Linux host.

OK. If I'm going to use Momentics IDE I need to do that (develop on Win/Lin) anyway, right?

post113104: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Steve Reid(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:15:00 GMT

6.6 doesn't include a self-hosted development system. You have to develop your applications on a Windows or Linux host.

post113103: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Eric Poole(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:11:49 GMT

OK, that should be fine... if I'm going to do that, though, I may as well install 6.6, right?

post113102: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Steve Reid(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:03:55 GMT

Sorry--it's been a while since 6.5 was released. Yes, you're right: the VMware image is just a runtime system, and there isn't an easy way to install the tools on it. If you want a development system, you'll have to install the self-hosted version of QNX SDP (6.5.0 and then 6.5.0 SP1).

post113101: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Eric Poole(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:38:40 GMT

Good afternoon, Steve.

Thanks for confirming that, and for the fast response. The VMware QNX 6.5 appliance doesn't appear to have the development command line tools installed, either (e.g. compiler, make, ...), or very much else other than the basic Unix and GUI apps and utilities. I'm assuming I have to get and install all that stuff myself which is perfectly fine, if I can get a pointer to the docs that explain what to do, happy to RTFM.

Thanks...

post113099: Re: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Steve Reid(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:51:56 GMT

The IDE is supported only on Windows and Linux hosts. On self-hosted QNX Neutrino 6.5 systems, the QNX Momentics Tool Suite includes just the command-line tools.

post113098: New QNX User: Installing Momentics on VMware QNX 6.5 appliance?

Eric Poole(deleted) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:49:01 GMT

Good morning, all... New QNX user here, installed the QNX 6.5 appliance for VMware Player and it is running well. I used the install file 650SP1-VM.tar available at http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=23665. That is a VMware image already pre-installed, i.e. it's not an ISO file that requires installation on VMware. It includes the QNX GUI (Photon?) and a basic selection of Unix tools like gzip, sed, tar, etc. It does not include Momentics or any other development environment, and does not include any compilers.

Now looking for information on how to install the Momentics IDE on the QNX appliance, if that can be done.

I looked in the "Documents" tab at the top of the QNX Community VMware Project forum and it is empty. I have downloaded all of the other documentation available at http://www.qnx.com/download/group.html?programid=20905 ("QNX Software Development Platform 6.5.x") and read through those ones that look like they may apply. I have seen a few places that read that Momentics can not be installed on a native QNX platform, and yet there are ISOs available like qnxsdp-6.5.0-201007091524-dvd.iso and qnxsdp-6.5.0SP1.iso that appear to do just that... they install Neutrino and Momentics on a clean disk partition. I will try doing that on a clean VMware virtual machine but meanwhile would like to see if I can install Momentics on the VM I already have running.

Any information appreciated... thanks...

post107614: Converting QNX 650 VM to Parallels

Kevin Stallard — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:12:25 GMT

For what it is worth, I've been able to convert the QNX 650 VM to run under Parallels.

I had to do it under Ubuntu Linux.  Here are the steps in general.

1.  Combine the split disk images into one image:

vmware-vdiskmanager –r ~/VirtualMachines/<imagename>.vmdk –t 2 ~/VirtualMachines/<newimagename>.vmdk

2.  Install qemu

sudo apt-get install qemu

3.  Convert the vmware harddisk image into a raw format

qemu-img ~/VirtualMachines/<newimagename>.vmdk -O raw ~/VirtualMachines/<newrawimagename>.hdd

4.  Copy everything to your machintosh computer and start up parallels

5.  Open the virtual machine, let it do its converstions.  It will complain about an invalid image, as with most things that complain, ignore it :)

6.  Open up the hardware settings of the VM, change the image for the HD to the raw image you created with qemu-img.

7.  Start it up and hit the space bar, make it boot w/o photon

8.  Get a command prompt and type:

touch /etc/system/config/nophoton

9.  Reboot and it should work.  I think the video driver kills the VM when QNX tries to start it.

Let me know if it works for you, or if you have some problems, I'll try to fix them.

Thanks

Kevin

post98338: Re: VMware.boot

Rob Hoeye — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:55:53 GMT

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

post92193: Clean QNX shutdown on host sutdown ?

Raoul Couraud — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:02:24 GMT

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?

post89636: vmware tools for QNX4

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:06:49 GMT

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

post84226: Problem booting QNX 6.5.0 / Neutrino650 target

Milind Gaonkar — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:35:01 GMT

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

post52729: Re: glibc for qnx

Dinkar Kumar Verma — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:23:22 GMT

Thanks Neil.

I just want to change the BUFSIZ and recompile the entire glibc on qnx platform.

How challenging can it be??

post51279: Re: glibc for qnx

Neil Schellenberger(deleted) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:32:39 GMT

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?

post51255: glibc for qnx

Dinkar Kumar Verma — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:12:39 GMT

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

post48133: QNXv6.4.1 installation fails when you upate the disk driver devb-btmm provided with the installation.

Nagaraj Salotagi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:36:55 GMT

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.

post42834: RE: RE: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC address.

Mario Charest — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:45:37 GMT

> -----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

>

post42822: Re: RE: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC address.

Senthil K — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:52:14 GMT

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.

post42527: VMware SVGA Device Developer Kit

Mike Gorchak — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:12 GMT

Just for your information: http://vmware-svga.sourceforge.net/

post42305: RE: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC address.

Mario Charest — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:16 GMT

> -----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

>

post42304: Two ethernet interfaces configured with same MAC address.

Senthil K — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37:12 GMT

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.

post41729: RE: Where can I download the latest version of vmtools for QNX 6.4.1 ?

Max Feil — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:24:29 GMT

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

post41726: Where can I download the latest version of vmtools for QNX 6.4.1 ?

Alain Achkar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:27:28 GMT

post41725: To install QNX 6.4.1 in a VM, should I use 'Other' or 'Other 64'? 1 or 2 processors?

Alain Achkar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:26:43 GMT

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.

post32897: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:45:38 GMT

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.

post32896: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:33:28 GMT

This is where I downloaded esxi 3.4. see attached image

post32895: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:14:10 GMT

There are only links to 3.5 :(

No previous veriosn of ESXi I find there.

post32894: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:55 GMT

I downloaded it from http://vmware.com/download/esxi/

post32893: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:05:02 GMT

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 ;)

post32892: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:42:31 GMT

That is the nice thing esxi 3.4 also has IDE

post32891: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:30 GMT

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.

post32846: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:17:25 GMT

I started with a fresh install for the QNX 4.25

post32845: Re: RE: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:21 GMT

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

post32799: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Klaus Pantleon(deleted) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:07:42 GMT

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.

post32180: RE: Port of VMW

Colin Burgess — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:30:50 GMT

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..

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General

http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post32179

post32179: Port of VMW

Rick Duff(deleted) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:34:47 GMT

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..

post32178: Re: File transfers between QNX guest and Windows host

Rick Duff(deleted) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:29:00 GMT

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..

post32015: RE: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Mario Charest — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:28:12 GMT

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?

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post32014: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:02 GMT

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?

post32012: Re: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Rick Duff(deleted) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:18 GMT

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

>

>

--

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post32006: QNX4.25 on VMware esix4 Phindows connection slowdown

Ernesto Juarez — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:46:20 GMT

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

post19330: Re: VMware.boot

Arvin Baalu — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:36:47 GMT

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

post19296: Creating a VMWare bootable Image

Arvin Baalu — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:45:30 GMT

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

post17046: Re: MS Virtual PC

Andrew Golovnia(deleted) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:25:31 GMT

> 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.

post17045: Re: MS Virtual PC

Andrew Golovnia(deleted) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:22:09 GMT

> 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

post16291: How to connect to target on VMware use host-only IP?

qiu niuxi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:46:00 GMT

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.

post13297: Re: QNX 4.24 & WinXP SP3 & VmWare Workstation 6.0.0

ildar Gabdullin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:29:44 GMT

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.

post13227: Re: QNX 4.24 & WinXP SP3 & VmWare Workstation 6.0.0

ildar Gabdullin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:06:26 GMT

I forgot to mention that for QNX in hardware options a CD drive was also selected, of course...

post13225: QNX 4.24 & WinXP SP3 & VmWare Workstation 6.0.0

ildar Gabdullin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:46:50 GMT

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.

post11407: Re: MS Virtual PC

Alex Chapiro — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:50:21 GMT

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.

post11203: MS Virtual PC

Alex Chapiro — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:56:38 GMT

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?

post8288: Problems with directional arrow QNX 4.25

Tevaearai eritaia — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:38:32 GMT

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

post7643: RE: File transfers between QNX guest and Windows host

Colin Burgess — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:28:23 GMT

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>

post7642: File transfers between QNX guest and Windows host

Kevin Miller — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:14:18 GMT

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...

post7619: Re: VMware 6, Vista, and QNX 4.25

Kevin Miller — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:51 GMT

I put some sleeps into sysinit.1, and started Net.ether2100 with no arguments, and now the network is working just fine.

post7615: Re: VMware 6, Vista, and QNX 4.25

Kevin Miller — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:58:20 GMT

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.

post7534: VMware 6, Vista, and QNX 4.25

Kevin Miller — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:56:09 GMT

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.

post7058: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Mario Charest — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:37:51 GMT

> 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

post7002: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Mario Charest — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:31:48 GMT

post6980: Re: VMware.boot

Mario Charest — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:38:34 GMT

> 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.

post6358: Re: VMware.boot

David Alessio(deleted) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:59:33 GMT

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

post6196: Re: VMware.boot

Colin Burgess — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:32:50 GMT

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

post6122: Re: VMware.boot

David Alessio(deleted) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:52 GMT

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

post6115: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Maneesh Anand K N — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:27:05 GMT

Keith,

Can you please tell what was the change involved in the .vmx file for the SCSI device?

Thanks

post5208: Using hints/patches from pkgsrc sysutils/open-vm-tools

Christian Leutloff — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:30:40 GMT

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.

post5179: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Keith Russell(deleted) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:05:03 GMT

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

post5171: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Tsung-Hsun Wu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:40 GMT

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

post5170: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Tsung-Hsun Wu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:38 GMT

post5169: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Tsung-Hsun Wu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:54:38 GMT

post5164: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Colin Burgess — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:17:36 GMT

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

post5162: Re: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Alex Chapiro — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:46:00 GMT

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.

post5057: Running QNX on VM-Ware Server

Bjoern Weber — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:20:53 GMT

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

post3817: Re: Installed, now...?

Dj Reddy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:41:10 GMT

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?

post2729: Re: Communication interface

Alexey Yahno — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:19:03 GMT

Actully it seems that VMCI is not included in open-vm-tools by now.

Best regards,

Alexey

post2719: Re: Installed, now...?

Rick Duff(deleted) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:52:22 GMT

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..

post2718: Re: Communication interface

Rick Duff(deleted) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:48:00 GMT

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..

post2716: Re: Installed, now...?

Steve Reid(deleted) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:38:40 GMT

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.

post2714: Installed, now...?

Andrew Derry — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:21:10 GMT

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!

post2493: Communication interface

Alexey Yahno — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:26:42 GMT

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?

post1878: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Colin Burgess — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:53:46 GMT

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

>

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post1877: RE: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Garry Turcotte — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:46:18 GMT

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...

post1876: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Colin Burgess — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:43:10 GMT

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

>

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post1873: RE: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Garry Turcotte — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:34:18 GMT

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

post1871: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Dennis Kellly(deleted) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:33:35 GMT

Thanks. Much better!!! I was trying to do it with termios but didn't succeed.

post1869: Re: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Colin Burgess — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:10:30 GMT

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

post1868: Obnoxious ascii BEL sound

Dennis Kellly(deleted) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:55:30 GMT

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?

post1826: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

James VanOeffelen(deleted) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:03:09 GMT

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.

post1755: Re: Updated vmtoold.c

Rick Duff(deleted) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:56:20 GMT

> > 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..

post1752: Re: Updated vmtoold.c

Mario Charest — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:08:29 GMT

> 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?

post1659: Re: VMware.boot

Colin Burgess — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:23:37 GMT

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

>

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post1658: VMware.boot

Rick Duff(deleted) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:19:37 GMT

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..

post1615: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Mario Charest — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:45:14 GMT

post1574: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Rick Duff(deleted) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:19:01 GMT

> 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..

post1566: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Mitchell Schoenbrun — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:20:50 GMT

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?

post1555: Updated vmtoold.c

Rick Duff(deleted) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:30:12 GMT

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..

post1468: Re: Project Status

Rick Duff(deleted) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:31:46 GMT

>

> 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..

post1465: Project Status

Mario Charest — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:51:08 GMT

What is the status of the project. Who has done what so far? What's the plan. Does somebody has a plan?

- Mario

post1458: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Rick Duff(deleted) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:22:09 GMT

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..

post1457: Re: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Mario Charest — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:16:02 GMT

Hello Rick,

Nice to see you back in the game. Do you plan on re-issuing a version of vmtoold?

- Mario

post1445: Welcome to the Vmware General Forum

Rick Duff(deleted) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:11:26 GMT

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..