Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Longhorn

[Doug Stanley <dstanley@imtco.com>]

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I thought from what I read that longhorn required a 3d accelerator
card and relied heavily on directX. I thought it was something
crazy like you need atleast an geforce FX5200 just to run longhorn
at a decent speed...

Perhaps that's the problem? Maybe it's doing all the directX in software
and making it take twice as long...but I'm not really a windows or
longhorn expert, so I may just be talking out my a**.

Atleast it installs though right ? ;)

Doug

Darryl Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>     Just for giggles I ran an install of Longhorn build 4074 on CVS Qemu 
> today with kqemu.  The install seemed to go well; the first stage didn't 
> recognise any mouse (probably more a Windows error than a Qemu one), but 
> was otherwise perfectly rendered (with what appeared to be a vesa video 
> mode) and usable with the keyboard.  It proceeded reasonably quickly.  
> After the first reboot, the mouse was detected and worked, and it once 
> again proceed reasonably quickly (vesa video mode again), up until it 
> started detecting the hardware, at which point it stuck for around an 
> hour (it was actually doing work and processing the whole time).  During 
> this all seemed well, and I even watched it detect the video OK and flip 
> from 640x480 to 800x600.  Once it made it past the hardware detect and 
> booted into the actual Windows GUI, things got painful.  Apparently even 
> though the installer knows how to use vesa video, Windows itself and the 
> standard VGA display driver it installed *don't* and so I was left with 
> a 640x480 16 colour display that ran *agonisingly* slowly, presumably as 
> all of the video calls were being emulated through calls to the Bochs 
> BIOS..  It was glacial.  Anyhow, I managed to soldier through a few 
> windows to the Device Manager, and from what I could see everything 
> except the network card had been detected OK (except of course that the 
> video was 'Standard VGA').  Presumably the network card just needs the 
> Win2000 RTL8029 driver like Server 2003 did.  I tried to fix the video 
> so I'd be able to give Qemu + Longhorn a proper test, but after 
> (literally) hours to get through the driver update wizard and find that 
> my only choice was the standard VGA or something called a 'BARCO', I 
> gave up and wrote this short summary instead :)   Presumably a more 
> patient man would be able to install the Cirrus Win2000 driver and 
> Longhorn on Qemu would be usable...
> 
> Many regards,
> -- 
> Darryl Dixon <esrever_otua@pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net 
> <mailto:esrever_otua@pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net>>
> 
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