Installing Windows NT 4.0 on Qemu(MIPS) - Revision history

Malxau: Add notes about saving nvram

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Add notes about saving nvram

Neozeed: added some software

2014-01-22T02:27:31Z

added some software

Neozeed: found IE 3 for mips

2011-12-29T01:10:10Z

found IE 3 for mips

Neozeed: fix something silly & small.

2010-04-02T06:56:44Z

fix something silly & small.

Neozeed at 16:56, 25 March 2010

2010-03-25T16:56:09Z

Neozeed at 16:53, 25 March 2010

2010-03-25T16:53:50Z

Neozeed: change the emulator to the shipping 0.12.3 that has correct color.

2010-03-25T16:53:26Z

change the emulator to the shipping 0.12.3 that has correct color.

Neozeed at 02:11, 26 October 2009

2009-10-26T02:11:13Z

Neozeed at 17:53, 6 August 2009

2009-08-06T17:53:38Z

Neozeed at 17:49, 6 August 2009

2009-08-06T17:49:10Z

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 Then run the emulator
-<pre>qemu-system-mips64el.exe -hda nt4.disk  -M magnum -L .  -net nic -net user -cdrom winnt40wks_sp1_en.iso</pre>
+<pre>qemu-system-mips64el.exe -hda nt4.disk -M magnum -L . -net nic -net user -cdrom winnt40wks_sp1_en.iso</pre>
 Your system will initialize and just run thru the quick setup… Keep the display at 800x600 as the mouse will actually work at that resolution!  Also set the date to the correct date, and ensure the MAC address for your Ethernet is not all zeros.  You can make up any address you want.
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 This will kick off the install.  It will look & act like every other copy of Windows NT 4.0 that you have installed.  Keep in mind that you will create a ‘d’ partition, and install in there.  I’d recommend you skip the exhaustive disk scan as that seems to always screw up for me.  The install is pretty straight forward, I’d recommend you select an easy password, and you will probably want to setup an automatic logon.
 == Where to go from here ==

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 == Where to go from here ==
-From there you are on your own.  I’ve seen Exchange 4.0 available for the MIPS, and some old versions of SQL Server, SNA Server out there.  I’ve never seen Microsoft Word for NT & Microsoft Excel for NT.  They were 32bit versions released prior to Office 95, and I *THINK* they had i386/mips/powerpc/alpha versions.. But I’m really not that sure.  I think internet explorer 2.0 & 3.0 are the ONLY web browser for the MIPS and no, Windows CE MIPS stuff will NOT run on the MIPS NT.  So don’t be all that disappointed as this isn’t too useful, but it may be interesting to see what all those MIPS directories were all about!
+From there you are on your own.  I’ve seen Exchange 4.0 available for the MIPS, and some old versions of SQL Server, SNA Server out there.  The only versions of Microsoft Word & Excel for NT that I've seen were for the i386 & the Dec Alpha.  I think internet explorer 2.0 & 3.0 are the ONLY web browser for the MIPS and no, Windows CE MIPS stuff will NOT run on the MIPS NT.  So don’t be all that disappointed as this isn’t too useful, but it may be interesting to see what all those MIPS directories were all about!
-I have ported over a few things to the MIPS namely:
+I have ported & found a few things to the MIPS namely:
 * [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/games/dungeon-2.5.6-MIPS-win32.zip dungeon-2.5.6]
 * [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/games/Hyperoid-mips.exe Hyperoid]
 * [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/games/nethack-3.1.2-MIPS.zip nethack-3.12]
 * [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/games/quake-MIPS.exe Quake1]
+* [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/games/quakeworld.exe QuakeWorld]
 [[Category:QEMU Tutorials]] [[Category:Qemu]]

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 I’ve tested a 3.51 workstation CD to no avail… It hangs checking the hard disk.  I also have a 3.1 CD with the win32 sdk & it doesn’t work either.  However 4.0 works fine!  I should also add, this gave me a chance to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 for the MIPS, and to try SQL 4.21 for the MIPS out.
-One of the first thing you’ll find out, is that the Dec Alpha was popular non intel machine to run because of FX!32.  This program from Dec, allowed for dynamic translation of 32bit binaries on the Alpha.  So that you could run Office 97 for the i386 on the Alpha.  And on the 2nd run it was effectively a native copy as it had been translated at that point.  Nothing like this existed for the MIPS.  Thus native applications are RARE if any.  Another thing contributing to the lack of MIPS stuff, is that right after sp1 for Windows NT 4.0 came out, a week later all support for the MIPS ended.  Thus there is no internet explorer 3, and any of those resulting projects…  Which is really sad.  I *think* there may still be some copies floating out there for the PowerPC, but it was killed around the time of service pack 3.
+One of the first thing you’ll find out, is that the Dec Alpha was popular non intel machine to run because of FX!32.  This program from Dec, allowed for dynamic translation of 32bit binaries on the Alpha.  So that you could run Office 97 for the i386 on the Alpha.  And on the 2nd run it was effectively a native copy as it had been translated at that point.  Nothing like this existed for the MIPS.  Thus native applications are RARE if any.  Another thing contributing to the lack of MIPS stuff, is that right after sp1 for Windows NT 4.0 came out, a week later all support for the MIPS ended.  While there is [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/msie301-mips.exe internet explorer 3], there doesn't seem to be any of the other resulting projects…  Which is really sad.  I *think* there may still be some copies floating out there for the PowerPC, but it was killed around the time of service pack 3.
 Anyways if you want to run this, I did find thru a little digging around the win32 exe is available on Hervé’s site.
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 == Where to go from here ==
-From there you are on your own.  I’ve seen Exchange 4.0 available for the MIPS, and some old versions of SQL Server, SNA Server out there.  I’ve never seen Microsoft Word for NT & Microsoft Excel for NT.  They were 32bit versions released prior to Office 95, and I *THINK* they had i386/mips/powerpc/alpha versions.. But I’m really not that sure.  I think internet explorer 2.0 is the ONLY web browser for the MIPS and no, Windows CE MIPS stuff will NOT run on the MIPS NT.  So don’t be all that disappointed as this isn’t too useful, but it may be interesting to see what all those MIPS directories were all about!
+From there you are on your own.  I’ve seen Exchange 4.0 available for the MIPS, and some old versions of SQL Server, SNA Server out there.  I’ve never seen Microsoft Word for NT & Microsoft Excel for NT.  They were 32bit versions released prior to Office 95, and I *THINK* they had i386/mips/powerpc/alpha versions.. But I’m really not that sure.  I think internet explorer 2.0 & 3.0 are the ONLY web browser for the MIPS and no, Windows CE MIPS stuff will NOT run on the MIPS NT.  So don’t be all that disappointed as this isn’t too useful, but it may be interesting to see what all those MIPS directories were all about!
 I have ported over a few things to the MIPS namely:

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 Then run the emulator
-<pre>qemu-system-mips64el.exe -hda nt4.disk  -M magnum -L .  -net nic -net user-cdrom winnt40wks_sp1_en.iso</pre>
+<pre>qemu-system-mips64el.exe -hda nt4.disk  -M magnum -L .  -net nic -net user -cdrom winnt40wks_sp1_en.iso</pre>
 Your system will initialize and just run thru the quick setup… Keep the display at 800x600 as the mouse will actually work at that resolution!  Also set the date to the correct date, and ensure the MAC address for your Ethernet is not all zeros.  You can make up any address you want.

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 This will kick off the install.  It will look & act like every other copy of Windows NT 4.0 that you have installed.  Keep in mind that you will create a ‘d’ partition, and install in there.  I’d recommend you skip the exhaustive disk scan as that seems to always screw up for me.  The install is pretty straight forward, I’d recommend you select an easy password, and you will probably want to setup an automatic logon.
 From there you are on your own.  I’ve seen Exchange 4.0 available for the MIPS, and some old versions of SQL Server, SNA Server out there.  I’ve never seen Microsoft Word for NT & Microsoft Excel for NT.  They were 32bit versions released prior to Office 95, and I *THINK* they had i386/mips/powerpc/alpha versions.. But I’m really not that sure.  I think internet explorer 2.0 is the ONLY web browser for the MIPS and no, Windows CE MIPS stuff will NOT run on the MIPS NT.  So don’t be all that disappointed as this isn’t too useful, but it may be interesting to see what all those MIPS directories were all about!
 [[Category:QEMU Tutorials]] [[Category:Qemu]]

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 Download both of these files:
-[http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/emulator/qemu-system-mips64el-12.3.zip]
+[http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/WindowsNT4.0-MIPS/emulator/qemu-system-mips64el-12.3.zip qemu-system-mips64el-12.3.zip]
 [http://hpoussineau.free.fr/qemu/firmware/magnum-4000/setup.zip setup.zip]

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 <pre>
 Hello,
 I wanted to let you know that I succeeded to run MS Windows NT/MIPS in the Qemu emulator.
 As far as I know, Qemu is the first emulator to be able to run Windows NT non i386/x64.
 Some screenshots:
 http://hpoussineau.free.fr/qemu/arc20081202-nt350-4.png
 http://hpoussineau.free.fr/qemu/arc20090315_nt4.png
 Code needs to be cleaned up and will be contributed upstream.
 Hervé
 </pre>

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 Windows NT 4.0 on the MIPS
 Personally I’ve never used any MIPS workstations with Windows NT, I’ve been lucky to have used the PowerPC build for IIS (it was cool in that intel hacks wouldn’t work.. It’s too bad it didn’t live long from Microsoft’s end) and of course SQL server on the Dec Alpha.  I also used a Dec Alpha as a workstation (the multia!) at the time I recall it was cool as it could decode MP3’s in realtime!  Sadly my multia died the day Microsoft killed the port.
 Anyways while I was searching around hoping the qemu forum had come alive (it is!) I came across this post: