Parallels VM

Rob_Hem1 · June 2, 2006, 2:27pm

Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

We didn’t have any trouble getting a QNX4 CD to boot and do an install.
The installed system will run, BUT getting networking running seems to
be an issue. Parallels provides a RealTech NIC interface (AFAIK, that’s
the only thing available so far). When we try to fire up Net.rtl, the
system just goes into a spin.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks//

-Rob

P.S.
BTW, We can’t even get QNX6 to boot off CD… any info/experiences in
that regard would also be appreciated.

Robert_Rutherford1 · June 5, 2006, 12:34am

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:27:58 -0500, Rob Hem wrote:

Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

BTW, We can’t even get QNX6 to boot off CD… any info/experiences in
that regard would also be appreciated.

What host OS are you running Parallels under? Is it Intel Mac (OS X)?

I can’t help you (yet) but I am very keen to stay in the loop on this as I
am seriously considering ordering a MacBook Pro as my new laptop and I had
been hoping/expecting to use Parallels to run QNX6 on it.

Rob Rutherford
Ruzz Technology

Kevin_Chiles1 · June 5, 2006, 12:11pm

Rob Hem <rob@spamyourself.com> wrote:

Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

We didn’t have any trouble getting a QNX4 CD to boot and do an install.
The installed system will run, BUT getting networking running seems to
be an issue. Parallels provides a RealTech NIC interface (AFAIK, that’s
the only thing available so far). When we try to fire up Net.rtl, the
system just goes into a spin.

Any info would be appreciated.

The 8029 is ne2000 compatible. Have you tried Net.ether1000?

BTW, what version of VM are you using?

Rob_Hem1 · June 5, 2006, 4:44pm

Rob,

Yes, it’s on a MacBook Pro w/ OS X… Just go out and get one! It a
wonder… And running multiple copies of various OSes via Parallels is
quite eye opening. Greatest tool I’ve seen so far for systems
integration development. Very kool that once you’ve got a VM built, you
can clone it. I’ve seen 2 invocations of BSD, 1 of Linux, and 1 of
WinNT all busily running simultaneously on a MacBook Pro, and talking to
one another… and the rest of the (real) machines on the network…
with only about 50% CPU(s) usage.

Kevin,

No, I haven’t tried Net.ether1000. I’ll see if anyone else around here
has tried it. It’s whatever the latest release candidate is in the
Parallels beta for OS X hosting (www.parallels.com).

-Rob

Robert Rutherford wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:27:58 -0500, Rob Hem wrote:

Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

BTW, We can’t even get QNX6 to boot off CD… any info/experiences in
that regard would also be appreciated.

What host OS are you running Parallels under? Is it Intel Mac (OS X)?

I can’t help you (yet) but I am very keen to stay in the loop on this as I
am seriously considering ordering a MacBook Pro as my new laptop and I had
been hoping/expecting to use Parallels to run QNX6 on it.

Rob Rutherford
Ruzz Technology

Robert_Rutherford1 · June 6, 2006, 12:25am

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:44:58 -0500, Rob Hem wrote:

Yes, it’s on a MacBook Pro w/ OS X… Just go out and get one! It a
wonder… And running multiple copies of various OSes via Parallels is
quite eye opening.

I’ve been doing that for a while now using VMware under WinXP and yes, it
is amazing for many purposes. VMware actually have some ‘trick’ network
configurations that go beyond what Parallels is capable of doing (but not
needed for most configurations). But I understand Parallels uses the new
Intel hardware support for virtualisation (hypervisor) which should give a
major performance gain over the traditional VMware approach.

Have you contacted Parallels about a bit of help with getting QNX to work?
I know they are unlikely to turn it into a fully supported OS but if we can
send them a QNX boot CD I reckon they’d probably have a bit of a look

Rob Rutherford

Rob_Hem1 · March 22, 2007, 8:26pm

Sorry for the (really) late reply Kevin, but we (myself and cohorts)
have just never had any luck getting QNX4 networking running under
Parallels, no matter what drivers we tried.

We never gave up hope though… and we just discovered the VMware Fusion
(Beta 2) project for the Mac.

I haven’t personally fired it up on my Mac yet, but one of my cohorts
did this morning. He got two QNX4 vms installed and running on his
MacBook Pro, with not only networking running, but Tcpip 5.0 also
running suporting an sshd invocation. He then showed up in my office
and asked if I knew how to get Fleet running. So, I ssh’ed into the two
vms from my Mac; cut & pasted a netmap file together and ran netmap -f
on each. Whalla, the two vms were talking Fleet!

He just wandered back in… He now has an NFS client running on one of
the vms accessing a source directory tree on his Mac file system. And,
can compile code in that tree from the vm.

There’s still some user id and ip address resolution issues to be worked
out, and probably some other relatively minor things to deal with, but
this is really kool & exciting stuff!

TTFN, I just thought I’d let you-all know that there looks to be a QNX4
VM on an intel Mac solution out there.

-Rob

Kevin Chiles wrote:

Rob Hem <> rob@spamyourself.com> > wrote:
Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

We didn’t have any trouble getting a QNX4 CD to boot and do an install.
The installed system will run, BUT getting networking running seems to
be an issue. Parallels provides a RealTech NIC interface (AFAIK, that’s
the only thing available so far). When we try to fire up Net.rtl, the
system just goes into a spin.

Any info would be appreciated.

The 8029 is ne2000 compatible. Have you tried Net.ether1000?

BTW, what version of VM are you using?

Mario_Charest1 · March 24, 2007, 6:28pm

“Rob Hem” <rob@spamyourself.com> wrote in message
news:etuomd$frf$1@inn.qnx.com…

Sorry for the (really) late reply Kevin, but we (myself and cohorts) have
just never had any luck getting QNX4 networking running under Parallels,
no matter what drivers we tried.

We never gave up hope though… and we just discovered the VMware Fusion
(Beta 2) project for the Mac.

From what I read you can even take the vm files (config and hd image) from a
Windows box. They are interchangable.

I haven’t personally fired it up on my Mac yet, but one of my cohorts did
this morning. He got two QNX4 vms installed and running on his MacBook
Pro, with not only networking running, but Tcpip 5.0 also running
suporting an sshd invocation. He then showed up in my office and asked if
I knew how to get Fleet running. So, I ssh’ed into the two vms from my
Mac; cut & pasted a netmap file together and ran netmap -f on each.
Whalla, the two vms were talking Fleet!

He just wandered back in… He now has an NFS client running on one of the
vms accessing a source directory tree on his Mac file system. And, can
compile code in that tree from the vm.

There’s still some user id and ip address resolution issues to be worked
out, and probably some other relatively minor things to deal with, but
this is really kool & exciting stuff!

TTFN, I just thought I’d let you-all know that there looks to be a QNX4 VM
on an intel Mac solution out there.

-Rob

Kevin Chiles wrote:
Rob Hem <> rob@spamyourself.com> > wrote:
Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?

We didn’t have any trouble getting a QNX4 CD to boot and do an install.
The installed system will run, BUT getting networking running seems to
be an issue. Parallels provides a RealTech NIC interface (AFAIK, that’s
the only thing available so far). When we try to fire up Net.rtl, the
system just goes into a spin.

Any info would be appreciated.

The 8029 is ne2000 compatible. Have you tried Net.ether1000?

BTW, what version of VM are you using?

Rob_Hem1 · March 26, 2007, 3:45pm

Mario Charest wrote:

“Rob Hem” <> rob@spamyourself.com> > wrote in message
news:etuomd$frf$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Sorry for the (really) late reply Kevin, but we (myself and cohorts) have
just never had any luck getting QNX4 networking running under Parallels,
no matter what drivers we tried.

We never gave up hope though… and we just discovered the VMware Fusion
(Beta 2) project for the Mac.

From what I read you can even take the vm files (config and hd image) from a
Windows box. They are interchangable.

That makes sense, after all VMware.com has quite a variety of what they

call “VM appliances”, fully installed and configured VM images of
Windows, BSD, Linux, etc. systems customize for various purposes, that
you can just purchase, download and run.

Another neat thing… You can take snap shots of a running VM and/or
just stop the VM in the middle of say a big compile. When you start it
back up again, everything just continues on from the next instruction.

From what I can tell so far, pretty solid stuff. I like it!

I haven’t personally fired it up on my Mac yet, but one of my cohorts did
this morning. He got two QNX4 vms installed and running on his MacBook
Pro, with not only networking running, but Tcpip 5.0 also running
suporting an sshd invocation. He then showed up in my office and asked if
I knew how to get Fleet running. So, I ssh’ed into the two vms from my
Mac; cut & pasted a netmap file together and ran netmap -f on each.
Whalla, the two vms were talking Fleet!

He just wandered back in… He now has an NFS client running on one of the
vms accessing a source directory tree on his Mac file system. And, can
compile code in that tree from the vm.

There’s still some user id and ip address resolution issues to be worked
out, and probably some other relatively minor things to deal with, but
this is really kool & exciting stuff!

TTFN, I just thought I’d let you-all know that there looks to be a QNX4 VM
on an intel Mac solution out there.

-Rob

Kevin Chiles wrote:
Rob Hem <> rob@spamyourself.com> > wrote:
Has anyone out there had any luck getting QNX4 running under the
Parallels VM?
We didn’t have any trouble getting a QNX4 CD to boot and do an install.
The installed system will run, BUT getting networking running seems to
be an issue. Parallels provides a RealTech NIC interface (AFAIK, that’s
the only thing available so far). When we try to fire up Net.rtl, the
system just goes into a spin.
Any info would be appreciated.
The 8029 is ne2000 compatible. Have you tried Net.ether1000?

BTW, what version of VM are you using?