Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeDos problems with Qemu 0.70

[Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>]

jeebs@yango.us schrieb:
> In a previous mesasge last weekend
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qemu-devel&m=111523670008882&w=1
> 
> where I listed a number of problems with v0.70 (Windows build), some things
> that did work right, and some suggestions, I'm going to have to retract the
> part where I said freedos seems to work okay, including the mouse.
> 
> The mouse driver is still locking things up.  And once it locked up qemu
> enough that it didn't want to shut itself down.  I had to tell WinXP to
> forcibly shut it down.
> 
> And speaking of FreeDOS, somebody in the qemu-user forums is reporting a
> problem with write protecting a floppy.  Looks like the write failure isn't
> being properly passed to the guest.
> 
> http://m2.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopic.php?t=627
> http://m2.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopic.php?t=653
> 
> Looks like it's not OS specific, but you'll have to ask him for more 
> details.

I think I have to agree to this. Some weeks ago, I asked about a very 
strange error with changing CDs etc. This problem was solved by setting 
the correct permissions on /dev/hdc (apparently a udev update had reset 
them...) . Looks like in this case, the read access error of /dev/hdc 
wasn't properly handled. Maybe this is related to the write protection 
error.

Oliver Gerlich