Re: [Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch...

[Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>]

Roberto Polli wrote:
> Alle 11:09, giovedì 28 dicembre 2006, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> 
>>booting a preinstalled winxp fails because Windows XP
>>crashs...and ... reboot. It won't fail if the real hardware and
>>QEMU's virtual hardware are nearly identical.
> 
> ok
> 
>>Especially the chipset seams to be critical.
> 
> 1- so we should have one qemu "chipset emulator" for each winxp installation?
> 2- is this pbm equivalent to the "move my hd to another pc with different 
> mainboard" one?
> 3- if I solve pbm 2, should I solve pbm 1?
> 
>>/dev/hda1 is the first partition which is part of
>>/dev/hda (whole disk)
> 
> yes, i mistakenly thought that part of the windows bootloader was related to 
> the mbr
> 
> Thank you very much for your explanation, these are very helpful! Do you think 
> I should put something about this thread in the wiki? Forums are full of such 
> these question!

I think parts of this are already in Wiki:

http://kidsquid.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-a1fc78523d7c7d256a29bac4577cd728be70eedd

Do you think this is sufficent? If not, feel free to extend it.

Dirk