![]() It works pretty cool, but given the chance, I'd dump Qemu for PCem, it feels more like having a real (old) pc on the desk! I wound up having to do that to setup my 'test' network where I have 4 windows 95 workstations around the 'world' with some NT servers and a bunch of cisco routers. It's probably best to install in a lower version, keep the disk either RAW or VMDK, then just move to the newer version. I've had major issues setting up Windows 95 for my network test environment on new versions of Qemu. I couldn't even install Windows 95 under Qemu 2.0 due to errors preventing Windows 95 Setup from progressing properly. I'm currently running Windows 95 under Qemu 0.9.0 and I got the net working. ![]() I have the AMI WinBIOS 486 configuration (486DX2 66 MHz, 2 x 1 GB hard disks, 8 MB RAM, Trident 8900 video card) backed up as win486.cfg incase I want to switch configs. Until then, I would have to back up the config file attributed to the BIOS ROM type and CMOS configuration that it is saved to. There needs to be a way to implement the ability to save and load PCem configurations without having to overwrite the default pcem.cfg file. Or even the ability to specify the config file to use on the command line, and I can just use batch files. Or even separate config sets all together, so I can have say Windows/286 config, and a Windows/386 config. (how did people put up with it back then? I remember using an IBM XT/286, the AT in a XT case, and it took forever to boot with 2MB of ram, so PCem certainly has the emulation done right there!) but yeah having the ability to jump to a 286 with 640kb of ram & EGA and a 386 with the VGA Charger + 8MB, and a 486 with a trident and 16MB of ram would be cool. I would agree, as I like having 16MB of ram on the 386 or 486, even the AMI 286, but the IBM AT? Oh no way, it takes FOREVER to boot with more than 640kb of ram. And quickly jumping from a XT to a 486 and selecting a different configuration can be a bit of a hassle, but it's worth it. If I want to switch the a PC emulating a 386, I would have to make a back up of the current PCem configuration and rename ami386.cfg as pcem.cfg. So far, on my PC, I have one of the configs backed up as ami386.cfg and the default config is pcem.cfg. That way if you want to switch to a different PC configuration (BIOS ROM, Video BIOS ROM, hard disk and memory size), you can simply use a different config file. Looking at Neozeed's comment, I believe that it would be good to add multiple configuration files. ![]() Sorry, but I was unable to respond to comments, because the router went kaput and I had to reset to make it work again. ![]() Ppgrainbow wrote: Sorry, but I was unable to respond to comments, because the router went kaput and I had to reset to make it work again. ![]()
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