From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 6 05:04:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08471 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp10.portal.net.au [202.12.71.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA08461 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:04:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00332; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:27:11 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801061257.XAA00332@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bochs and vn devices In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 11:08:53 BST." <199801061008.LAA01676@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:27:11 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I gave bochs, a MSD-DOS emulator under FreeBSD a try and it's working > quite nicely. The only problem I still have - and that has been left > unanswered in two or three weeks since I posted it before chrismas in > the bochs-developers mailing list - is that I cannot mount DOS > partitions effectively. > > Bochs allows for having disk image files like 30M.vga or 126M.vga > but when I have a mount_msdos mounted /c slice I see no way > how to access this from bochs. Any clues? You cannot do this. See the networking discussions that have been taking place on the bochs list subsequent to your subscription. > The other problem is vn devices: > > I wonderfully can create a floppy image and say > > vnconfig /dev/vn0 floppyimage and then mount -t msdos /dev/vn0 /mnt > > But when the diskimage is a disk which is partitioned with > the fdisk program under bochs I see no way to mount that file. You can't, again. You can point bochs at plain devices (/dev/fd0, /dev/ wd0, etc) and it will work, but it does not support anything else. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\