Chapter 14. Status of Various Guest OSes Running in Plex86


This file is a list (incomplete) of Operating Systems which
might be interesting to test in a plex86 VM.  The virtualization
is not complete enough yet to run most of them, but as it
progresses, we should aim to run as many as possible.

If you have other OS suggestions, please post them to the
list.  Submit a URL whenever possible.  A URL for a boot
floppy image is also helpful, as it can be quickly tested.

This file will be useful for those who want to be plex86 testers.

-Kevin



Guest OS    Version                         Status
=====================================================================
ReactOS                                     nt
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QNX Demo v4                                 OK from demo floppy
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MSDOS 6.22                                  OK from boot floppy
MSDOS 7 (from Win boot disk)                OK from boot floppy
---------------------------------------------------------------------
WindowsNT 4.0 Build 1381 SP1                OK from bochs disk image
Windows95                                   OK from bochs disk image
Windows other                               nt
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FreeDOS    Beta 4                           OK
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Linux      Pragma Linux 2.0.33              OK from boot floppy
           Debian Linux 2.2.17              OK from rescue floppy
           Tom's Root-Boot BF               ***
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OS/2                                        nt
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ecos                                        nt
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RTEMS                                       nt
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Minix                                       nt
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unOS                                        nt
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PicoBSD                                     OK from boot floppy
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NetBSD 1.5                                  OK (Frank van der Linden)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Key:
  BF = Boot Floppy
  nt = Not Tested
  OK = works fine



ReactOS:
  http://www.reactos.com/

QNX:
  http://get.qnx.com/
  http://www.qnx.com/
  http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/

MSDOS:
  http://www.microsoft.com/

Windows:
  http://www.microsoft.com/

FreeDOS:
  http://www.freedos.org/

Linux:
  Tom's Root Boot: http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

  Pragma Linux:  ftp://ftp.plex86.org/guestOS/1.44_pragma386
    I don't what the official URL is.  I have an old boot floppy,
    so I uploaded it.


OS/2:
  http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/os_2inst/ibmcorpo/index.htm

Ecos:
  http://www.redhat.com/embedded/technologies/ecos/

RTEMS:
  ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com/pub/rtems/betas/rtems-4.5.0-beta/contrib/pc386_grub_image/

Minix:
  http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

BeOS:
  http://www.be.com/
  http://free.be.com/


AROS - Amiga Research OS (see http://www.aros.org/)
  Prebuilt kernel:
    ftp://ftp.aros.org/pub/aros/snapshots/AROS-ibmpc-bin-<date>tgz
  To use it with VMWare, Bochs, Plex86, et al. you have to pad the image
  file with NULLs
  (I do this via "dd if=/dev/zero of=pad bs=missingbytes count=1" and
  then "cat kernel pad > disk" to have a 1440k image)
  If you are interested in the assembler that is used, download the
  source archive and look in AROS/config/i386-native/

unOS:
  http://www.miray.de/products/demo.html

PicoBSD:
  http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html

NetBSD:
  http://www.netbsd.org/