First post, by Iarsin
Hi, I yesterday installed coherent 4.2.10 from 4 floppy *.dd images, renamed to *.vdf on a *.vdi virtual harddisk attached to an ide controller PIIX4. It was incredible slow on that virtual box. The same with PIIX3.
I let it finishing the filesystem checks over night, and was able to login this morning.
I rebooted it and it sticks at FS check for more than an hour. I shut down the VM in virtual box and changed from PIIX4 to 3 with no difference.
I also disabled com1, audio, USB and the like. I switched from 32MB (coherent detected 12) to 12 (coherent detected 8MB) RAM.
I think it is all about the ide controller, though I'm not sure.
Lots of resets of the IDE controller in vbox log (also attache full zipped log file at the bottom)
00:00:03.146003 VMMDev: Guest Log: CPUID EDX: 0x178bfbbf00:00:03.146329 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x00 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)00:00:03.146619 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET00:00:03.147085 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: ata0-0: PCHS=1021/16/63 LCHS=1021/16/6300:00:03.148312 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: ata0-1: PCHS=65/16/63 LCHS=65/16/6300:00:03.157041 PIT: mode=2 count=0x48d3 (18643) - 64.00 Hz (ch=0)00:00:03.172748 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=00007f81b1e00000 w=640 h=480 bpp=32 cbLine=0xA00 flags=0x0 origin=0,000:00:03.620294 GUI: UIMachineViewNormal::resendSizeHint: Restoring guest size-hint for screen 0 to 800x60000:00:03.621957 GUI: 2D video acceleration is disabled00:00:03.622076 GUI: HID LEDs sync is not supported on this platform00:00:03.637801 GUI: UIMachineLogicNormal::sltCheckForRequestedVisualStateType: Requested-state=0, Machine-state=500:00:05.126647 GUI: Releasing mouse on focus out00:00:05.126774 GUI: Releasing keyboard on focus out00:00:05.127229 GUI: Machine-view #0 unfocused, reason=000:00:05.244994 GUI: Capturing keyboard on focus in00:00:05.245115 GUI: Machine-view #0 focused, reason=700:00:05.634650 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)00:00:05.635007 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=1, bootseq=002100:00:05.649601 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x0 origin=0,000:00:05.696111 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failed00:00:05.696474 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=2, bootseq=000200:00:05.696820 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...00:00:10.725441 PIT: mode=3 count=0x2e9c (11932) - 99.99 Hz (ch=0)00:00:10.741585 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc4 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0xec (-1 usec ago)00:00:10.747520 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET00:00:10.747692 ATA: LUN#0: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:10.747793 ATA: LUN#1: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:16.622281 GUI: Machine-window #0 deactivated00:00:16.622428 GUI: Releasing mouse on focus out00:00:16.622494 GUI: Releasing keyboard on focus out00:00:16.623372 GUI: Machine-view #0 unfocused, reason=300:00:16.791722 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x21 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x10 (-1 usec ago)00:00:16.791877 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET00:00:16.791956 ATA: LUN#0: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:16.792050 ATA: LUN#1: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:22.791107 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x21 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x10 (-1 usec ago)00:00:22.803682 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET00:00:22.803869 ATA: LUN#0: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:22.803973 ATA: LUN#1: INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS: 63 logical sectors, 15 heads00:00:28.935312 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x21 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x10 (-1 usec ago)00:00:28.935468 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
Would it run in PCem or 86box smoother and faster? I'm currently under Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and can dual boot into Windows 10. I'm using virtual box 6.1. 7.0 under Windows 10.
Under Linux I could use qemu or bochs.
