[Qemu-discuss] Windows 3.1 on QEMU

[Mahir Morshed]

Hello to you all.
I am trying to set up a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 machine on QEMU version 1.5.2 obtained from http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/.

-As part of this setup I want to have 16.7 million color support on an 800x600 window, perhaps more. When I try to install the drivers for the Cirrus Logic GD5446 graphics card obtained from http://www.claunia.com/qemu/drivers/index.html, and I set up the resolution as previously described (under Other Brand and Other Model) and restart Windows, the screen is completely messed up, with nothing coherent on the screen apart from the mouse pointer. (Keyboard functions still work, and I was able to reverse the damage.)

-I also want to configure TCP/IP support solely for Internet access. So I install the Microsoft Windows Network with TCP/IP 3.2b, manually setting an IP address to 192.168.1.70 and a default gateway to 192.168.1.1. When I install IE5.01 and skip the modem setup, it won't navigate to any site.

For posterity, here's the full content of my boot.bat: qemu-system-i386w -hda wfw311.vhd -hdb fat:/C:/Users/mahir256/Downloads/msdos622-win311 -boot order=cad -m 128M -soundhw sb16 -vga cirrus -cdrom wfw311.iso -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139

Never mind the reasons why I would want to run a clearly obsolete OS in the 2010s. I simply wish to know if there's anything I can do to fix these problems, or if they come from changes in the structure of QEMU since version 0.9.1 (the last version for which someone on the Internet has installed QEMU). [When I try to run 0.9.1 obtained from Lassauge's page at all, it crashes on my system.]

-Mahir

[Phil Ehrens]

Not guaranteeing anything, but maybe try a driver from here?:

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/legacy_software_archive.aspx

Good luck! I don't think I ever was able to run Windows 3.11 with
greater than 64k colors "back in the day", but I think the S3 card
was the best one late in the game. Please go easy on me, that was
20 years ago!

Post by Mahir Morshed
Hello to you all.
I am trying to set up a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 machine on QEMU version 1.5.2 obtained from http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/.
-As part of this setup I want to have 16.7 million color support on an 800x600 window, perhaps more. When I try to install the drivers for the Cirrus Logic GD5446 graphics card obtained from http://www.claunia.com/qemu/drivers/index.html, and I set up the resolution as previously described (under Other Brand and Other Model) and restart Windows, the screen is completely messed up, with nothing coherent on the screen apart from the mouse pointer. (Keyboard functions still work, and I was able to reverse the damage.)
-I also want to configure TCP/IP support solely for Internet access. So I install the Microsoft Windows Network with TCP/IP 3.2b, manually setting an IP address to 192.168.1.70 and a default gateway to 192.168.1.1. When I install IE5.01 and skip the modem setup, it won't navigate to any site.
For posterity, here's the full content of my boot.bat: qemu-system-i386w -hda wfw311.vhd -hdb fat:/C:/Users/mahir256/Downloads/msdos622-win311 -boot order=cad -m 128M -soundhw sb16 -vga cirrus -cdrom wfw311.iso -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139
Never mind the reasons why I would want to run a clearly obsolete OS in the 2010s. I simply wish to know if there's anything I can do to fix these problems, or if they come from changes in the structure of QEMU since version 0.9.1 (the last version for which someone on the Internet has installed QEMU). [When I try to run 0.9.1 obtained from Lassauge's page at all, it crashes on my system.]
-Mahir