From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Completing big real mode emulation
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:39:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324003921.GH20130@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA4CB17.3080604@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> >Either way - then we should make the goal of the project to support those
> >old boot loaders. IMHO it should contain visibility. Doing theoretical
> >stuff is just less fun for all parties. Or does that stuff work already?
>
> Mostly those old guests aged beyond usefulness. They are still broken,
> but nobody installs new images. Old images installed via workarounds work.
Hey :) I still install old OSes occasionally, so that I can build and
test code that will run on other people's still-running old machines.
-- Jamie
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Completing big real mode emulation
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:39:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324003921.GH20130@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA4CB17.3080604@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> >Either way - then we should make the goal of the project to support those
> >old boot loaders. IMHO it should contain visibility. Doing theoretical
> >stuff is just less fun for all parties. Or does that stuff work already?
>
> Mostly those old guests aged beyond usefulness. They are still broken,
> but nobody installs new images. Old images installed via workarounds work.
Hey :) I still install old OSes occasionally, so that I can build and
test code that will run on other people's still-running old machines.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 15:29 Completing big real mode emulation Mohammed Gamal
2010-03-19 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mohammed Gamal
2010-03-20 7:49 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 7:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 8:34 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-20 8:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-03-20 8:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 8:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 8:55 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-20 8:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-03-20 13:18 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 13:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-03-20 14:02 ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-03-20 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mohammed Gamal
2010-03-20 15:00 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-20 15:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2010-03-24 10:05 ` Sheng Yang
2010-03-24 10:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sheng Yang
2010-03-24 0:39 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-03-24 0:39 ` Jamie Lokier
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