FreeDOS on fedora with kvm/qemu/virt-manager

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Alex <mysqlstudent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>>> I have a freedos virtual machine working under kvm, created with
>>>> virt-manager. However, I can't get networking to work.
>>>>
>>>> The freedos instructions point to using virtualbox and using the
>>>> amdpcnet network driver, but I'm just using libvirt/virt-manager. Is
>>>> there a network driver in freedos that I can use with virt-manager?
>>>
>>> Turns out I just converted the image to virtualbox format and used that.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images#Exchanging_images_with_VirtualBox
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>
>> I've got FreeDOS working under qemu-kvm directly (w/o VirtManager)
>> with working TCP/IP using the rtl8139 network chipset.
>> I can post the qemu-kvm command line if it helps.
>
> Yes, I think that would be very helpful and would appreciate it if you
> would send that along.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

qemu-kvm -cdrom /dev/sr0
                 -soundhw sb16	
                 -net
nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:1F:1F:77:40:0f,model=rtl8139 -net
tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap1500
                  -m 16
                  -name freedos-vm
                  -drive file=/usr/drives/kvm/fdos/fdos.img,cache=none
                  -smp 1
                  -usb -usbdevice tablet
                  -vga cirrus
                  -vnc :20
                  -boot c					
I've yet to test it fully, but network is working well enough to pass
files using freedos' FTP server.

- Gilboa