Re: [B2-devel] Sheepshaver - File Access outside the virtual volume

[Joshua J. <jj...@gm...>]

On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Kevin Jaques wrote:

> I'm not sure what Basilisk is, but the Sheepshaver site said to  
> seek support on this forum.

Basilisk II is a 68K Mac emulator, and SheepShaver shares some code  
with it.  Including the external filesystem layer.

> I am having trouble moving files to and from the virtual Classic  
> Mac. I am running Mac OS X.4 ("Tiger"). I see that my computer's  
> actual startup volume appears on the virtual Classic desktop as  
> "Unix".
>
> Why am I only getting partial lists?

I don't know, but this might be a clue:

> Welcome to Genie and Lamp <http://lamp.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> Shell spawned with pid 2
> $ ls -l /Volumes
> total 0
> drwx------  21 0        0                0 Jan  2 02:12 Rio
> drwx------ 25975 0        0                0 Aug  5 12:45 Unix
> $


Rio is the boot volume and has 19 items at root level as expected.   
My extfs folder has 24 and therefore should display 26 in the second  
column.

(Genie/Lamp is a Unix-like environment that runs on traditional Mac OS.)

> Anyway, when I copied the files from the 'unix' drive to the 'bart  
> os9' volume, I think they lost all their resources.

Which version of SheepShaver are you using?  The May 2006 release has  
a known issue of not byteswapping the file types and creators, so  
your applications become type 'LPPA' (assuming you're on Intel) and  
won't launch.

> So, how does one get Mac files INTO the virtual Classic after the  
> volume is created, without losing all their essential Mac resources?

I recommend asking the maintainers to release a new version of  
SheepShaver.  Or you can try to build it yourself, but you're  
probably better off just getting someone who's already done so to  
email you a copy.

> Disturbingly, when I made a change to a directory using OS X, the  
> virtual Classic which had an open window displaying that directory  
> did not update the display.

This isn't a serious issue.  Just close the folder's window and  
reopen it, and the items will be refreshed.

Josh