[FreeVMS] Hi!

Roar Thronæs roart at nvg.ntnu.no
Sun Jul 17 15:04:05 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:04:20PM +0200, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
> >
> >Anyway - I have  qemu-system-x86_64 installed on ubuntu (which is
> >running in VMware under Window 7)
> >
> >The qemu boots and displays the grub boot selection screen. I choose
> >FreeVMS and booting starts - it gets to where it says it is launching
> >the kernel, but then all it does is flash random characters in the
> >upper right corner of the screen..
> 
> 	I suppose you have downloaded FreeVMS 0.4. 0.4 is in very early 
> development stage (and I don't have time enough to continue alone). 
> Random characters only show that L4 microkernel is running. I use this 
> functionality because 0.4 kernel uses 64-bits pointers (by default gcc 
> only use 4G pointers, 2G for system and 2G for user) and kernel can hang 
> without any message.

Maybe the 0.3 disk images should be made available until 0.4 is ready?
As of today, the non-working 0.4 just makes the project look bad.

-- 
Regards,
Roar Thronæs


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