I am trying to get the QNX4 RTOS running in VMWare. I had no problem installing the OS and running it. Also the Photon microGUI works with Pg.flatdc driver. But I need to get working the QNX Windows, which uses different drivers than Photon. I tried gr.vesa2, gr.vga and gr.vga256. gr.vesa2 report something about wrong FD structure (?), gr.vga works in 640x480 and gr.vga256 doesn’t work. I need QNX Windows under VMWare in 1158864 or 12801024 resolution.
Any clues how to solve this problem ?
P.S.: I heard that QNX Windows can be started under Photon and are using Photon drivers than…
Qwindows can be embedded in Photon with qwinph. It uses the graphic driver gr.phi or gr.phim. In this case Qwindows runs as
an application of Photon. It also works with phditto (from another QNX node) or phindows (from a Windows os).
Qwinph and the graphic drivers can be downloaded from beta.qwinph.
It was a surprise for me, that QNX4 can run in VMWare. Can you give me more detailed information about it:?:
Yes, QNX4 can be run in VMWare, it has no need to some special configuration. Photon runs immediately, all apps are running, you can emulate all hardware such as floppy, CD, HD, network…
I cannot find QWinPh or any components of it. I also have trouble with trying to update my QNX 4.23 to a 4.25 version which could have gr.photon included. It cannot decompress .tarx archives that are needed by update.
Well, you could try QNX in VMWare, it’s easy and working… I am doing such thing because of running some system with custom application which is running on a radar for educational purposes. If I succeed, there will be no need to get real thing and before doing something on real thing just try it on any window box with VMWare and QNX4 installed.
Something in QNX 4.25 breaks gr.vesa2 and gr.vga256. You can use gr.vga or downgrade QNX 4.25 to 4.24. I think the latest version of QNX Window may have fixed it. If not, just use QNX 4.24 if you have to use QNX Windows with high resolution.
Devon, belive me! gr.phi is the best solution.
I downloaded vmware a few days ago and managed to set up a virtual machine running:
- QNX4 operating system (version 4.25D)
- Photon GUI (version 1.14) in 1024x768
- Qwindows (version 4.24) in 1024x768 with gr.phi
The installation steps are:
- Install Photon
- Run crttrap trap
- Set up display resolution
- Install Qwindows and qwinph
- Run gr.phi (it is a part of qwinph package)
- Start Qwindows (it will not start gr.vga, because gr.phi is still
running). The display resolution will be the same you set under
photon.
Qwindows runs perfectly both in full screen and in a separate window.
Thank you once more for the idea, now I can run my older Qwindows applications on not QNX4-compatible notebooks embedded in Windows.
I couldn’t get the floppy to work, everytime vmware would report a fault and stop the VM?
Note that it also works with QNX6 but not in Photon ( VM crashes when trying to run graphic driver). Nice work around is to use Phindows to access to QNX6 machine.
I have done that without a problem. The MAC address of the QNX4 in VMWare may change every time you restart the virtual machine. You will need to “manage” your netmap accordingly. Or maybe mario’s automap will be able to handle it automatically
Wow interesting. Can you send me the output of sin ver. When a ran some benchmark Virtual PC was much faster then VMWare!!! So if I can figure out why it didn’t work…
pls can anyone send me the qwinph to my email? or attach here. biturbogarret@hotmail.com
or just tell me where to find it…i can not find in the qnx website.
thank you