Comments on: QNX 6.3.2 on Parallels 3.0

By: Parallels 4.0?

Parallels 4.0? — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:43:51 +0000

Has anyone tried this with parallels 4.0? It seems the boot floppy might not work here . . . am I missing something?

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:19:24 +0000

I copied ‘/.boot’ from the boot floopy into ‘/.boot’ at the filesystem in parallels, and I am able to boot from hdd.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:30:58 +0000

Hi Kevin,

You need the procnto-smp kernel that supports Parallels. Parallels to my knowledge doesn’t support SMP anyways, so I don’t think there is a benefit to doing this.

QNX 6.4.0 will ship with a kernel that supports Parallels so when it comes out you could grab that one.

You can even grab a pre-release version now:
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.community/wiki/SDP_6.4.0

If you keep the install disk I have here, and want to create your own 6.4.0 parallels boot disk then you need to take the devn-ne2000.so driver from the /proc/boot/ directory of the disks I have here. Then take the 6.4.0 kernel.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:13:13 +0000

How does one modify the floppy boot disk to use the SMP kernel? Should I mount the floppy image and replace .boot with the SMP version of the kernel or is there more to this particular boot floppy?

So far, things are working well. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

Regards, Kevin

By: dan

dan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:37:44 +0000

Hi Craig,

Those should be separate commands. I think the blog formatting makes it difficult to read. Try this:

cd /lib/dll

/bin/cp devn-ne2000.so devn-ne2000.so.bak

/bin/cp /proc/boot/devn-ne2000.so devn-ne2000.so

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:28:25 +0000

The commands in step 7 on preparing the VM don’t seem to work. There is no bin directory in /lib/dll/.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:20:16 +0000

Hi Kevin,

I’ve been successful in getting a lot of the command line tools working (not all). I don’t use the IDE much myself so I haven’t put too much effort into getting it going but it should be a simple mater of replacing the licensing plugin with a darwin native one.

Here is one discussion where you can build your own command line toolchain:

http://community.qnx.com/sf/discussion/do/listPosts/projects.toolchain/discussion.coredevelopmenttools.topc1141

Right now there are no plans to provide a mac os x based momentics install. I personally like the idea, if there are others please post on the qnx forums or this blog to show interest

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:50:59 +0000

I'm using a Macbook Pro and I love it. I develop software on QNX and I'm just starting to get my environment set up. I sure would LOVE to have QNX Momentics IDE and all the tools running on Mac OS X.

Do you think QNX might do something like this. I SO want to cut my ties with Windows and I don't like Linux all that much...

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:58:21 +0000

Hi Dan...

Thanks again. I am using VmWare Fusion 1.2, and I wonder if this is the issue. In Fusion, when I try to get QNX loaded, it says that there is no operating system. I have tried both to load from a bootable CD and with a CD with the .iso image in there. No dice in either case. If you have it working with Fusion 1.1, I'll try with this one to see what I can do. Thanks.

Regards... Miguel.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:37:36 +0000

I didn't have any issues installing on VMWare. I'm using VMWare Fusion 1.1. What errors/problems do you get when you try to install?

Once running USB won't work without a patch, but I think anyone can download that now.