better file sharing between os4 on qemu and windows, how ?

@Maijestro
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I am sure Wormhole a good tool for folks who need it, but I don’t like adding extra layers when they’re not necessary. Hollywood surely good for its purpose, but for quickly moving lots of small files (usual scenario when coding), I’d rather set up a mount list for a filesystem OS4 sees as a partition, and then working with from dopus4 or so.

Ideally, I’d mount a shared folder between OS4 and QEMU, but If that not possible, then USB stick does the job for now. Or, if there’s a reliable driver for a QEMU-supported network card, I could run a small FTP server, or client with a mount list or something, you’d have a shared folder that acts like a partition..

@All

In meantime I’ve set up QEMU with a TAP interface instead of SLIRP: SLIRP’s glitchy, doesn’t support IDCMP (no ping), and isn’t stable (at least that what i read in docs). TAP’s way seems more robust and on Windows, it’s simple to use too: install any software creating TAP device (like OpenVPN), bridge your network card (Ethernet or Wi-Fi) with this TAP, and OS4 in QEMU runs like another machine on your network, with all working pings, no needs for port forwarding and co. And then just:



But, the problem is, the driver I tested (53.6, 11/14/2016) chokes on transfers :( Downloads from OS4Depot start okay, then stall after a few MB, slow down, and drop. No crash, just the network dies.

I’m an OS4 beta tester, so I can try other versions as well, maybe will be lucky with one of them ..

@balaton
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As far as i aware we don't have NE2000, but we do have RTL8029 driver: rtl8029.device 53.3 (18.9.2014) , so i tried it firstly with ne2k_pci, and were able to add it to interfaces through this driver, and start the network, and be able to do ping myself, but, can't ping anything else (even gateway) (while of course, with rtl8139 can). For sake of tests i tried "new2k_isa", but that as expected even wasn't found by os4's rtl8029 driver..

@kas1e
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Look for the driver on os4welt - there is a forum there somewhere.
The author does not wish it to be distributed so I can't give you a link.
It works best.

rtl8139.device 53.7 (04.04.2024)

@smarkusg
Quote:AFAIK the rtl8139 beta driver from os4welt works better with QEmu's rtl8139 emulation, but it has problems with real rtl8139 cards on real PPC hardware the older versions of it didn't have, probably it's the same using a real rtl8139 card with pass-through on QEmu.

@smarkusg
Quote:The link is https://os4welt.de/viewtopic.php?p=49441#p49441 but you can only download the attachment if you have an os4welt.de account and are logged in.

@joerg
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I think there were two beta versions, the first one had problems with real card but the second one should work for both real and QEMU model of the card AFAIU.