From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLaeN-0006Zw-Om for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 00:38:23 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLadp-0005pG-F9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 00:38:20 -0400 Received: from [38.113.3.71] (helo=twix.hotpop.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLadp-0005p8-7n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 00:37:49 -0400 Received: from phreaker.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by twix.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EF10AF52B50 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 04:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (pcp02555028pcs.batlfl01.tn.comcast.net [68.60.22.179]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E961A0199 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 03:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 00:36:39 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Message-ID: <20040506043639.GA6583@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] VCPI & muLinux Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org I tried to install muLinux (a mini-distro, stored on several floppies) via the DOS mode option. (The DOS, in turn, was running under qemu on my linux system.) Suprise, suprise, it failed. Apparently, muLinux loads up Linux to run the installer. Linux, in turn, needs loadlin.exe to load. And loadlin.exe needs VCPI, which qemu doesn't support (or so it seems anyways). This is not a big deal at this point (I can just hack the linux installer script to install to image files instead of real floppies) but I am curious: Are we going to support VCPI in the future? BTW, does qemu support superformatted floppy images (as those made via /dev/fd0u1722) ? -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.