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[Devid Farinelli <devid.farinelli AT gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot for the responses!

Following the suggestions, I've made eth0 appear using this command:

qemu-system-i386 -hda BL3-5qem.img -m 512 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci

Now it shows "USE OF PCI-NE2000 DRIVER RECOMMENDED" while booting and I have to ctrl+c because it loops on "debug, sending discovery". 

Since I still don't have connection, I've tried: 

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

ifconfig eth0 up

without success, and

insmod ne2k-pci

that gives me an error "No useable cards found, driver NOT installed" "insmod: init_module: ne2k-pci: Device or resource busy"

Other attempts I made:

- I've found zimage.sb here, that seems to include the module for a card that I can emulate with Qemu(rtl8139). When I pass it to Qemu with "-kernel zimage.sb -boot c" it stops on "Booting from ROM", but googling doesn't help 

- I've tried editing /etc/rc to call "insmod ne2k-pci" during boot, but vi gives me "segmentation fault" as soon as I press a key. I just found that his only happens on qemu on MacOS so I'm going to try again on Ubuntu.

To clarify my goal, I have a raspberry pi with a host-os where I would like to start a qemu virtual machine with a guest-os. Since it is for a public presentation I would like the host os to boot very fast.

Any kind of suggestion is really appreciated.

 

puppy linux boots in about 30 seconds on my 2001 laptop but not with qemu.
A web search found alpha and beta puppy linux for raspberry pi and that you can emulate raspberry pi in linux.

Nice to know, I'll consider Puppy Linux as host os. Thanks!

The only problem is that the floppy version comes without DISK2.IMG
pre-created. If you create the floppy2 disk image, then you can append
"-fdb DISK2.IMG" to command line parameters.

That's nice I didn't know the floppy parameter. At the moment I'm using the qemu .img found on basiclinux's website.

On a previous topic where the gentleman could not get a network connection with QEMU I wonder what version of QEMU he is using?

I'm using Qemu v2.7.0 on MacOS, v2.5.0 on Ubuntu and Raspbian, v2.6.2 on piCore (TinyCore for the raspberry) 

Best Regards
Devid

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Narcis Garcia <informatica AT actiu.net> wrote:

qemu-system-i386 -m 16384 -fda DISK1.IMG -boot a

The only problem is that the floppy version comes without DISK2.IMG
pre-created. If you create the floppy2 disk image, then you can append
"-fdb DISK2.IMG" to command line parameters.

More about Qemu command line options:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/qemu-kvm


El 17/11/16 a les 00:19, Devid Farinelli ha escrit:

> Hi all,
>
> My name is Devid and I'm a CS student in Bologna(IT). For a public
> presentation, I would like to emulate an OS on a raspberry pi using
> Qemu. For this reason, I've found BasicLinux that boots amazingly fast
> (20s) compared to many others (e.s. tinycorelinux that takes 7minutes ).
>
> The main problem is that when I boot BasicLinux on Qemu (on
> Raspbian/MacOS/Ubuntu) I am not able to get a working network interface.
>
> I usually start qemu with this command that works perfectly with TinyCore
>
>     qemu-system-i386 -hda Bl3-5qemu.img -m 256
>
> but when I do an "ifconfig -a" it only shows me "lo" and "dummy"
> I've also tried with -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:00:00:02 without success
>
> I am very new to BasicLinux and Qemu, so I apologize if this is a
> trivial question.
> Any tip or guidance on what to try is welcome.
>
> Best Regards
> Devid
>
>

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