From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Completing big real mode emulation
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA489BF.5020100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9CFA5BF-A97C-422B-A5F1-514C89591DD3@suse.de>
On 03/20/2010 10:34 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough Hannes just tried to boot a Windows 98 VM on SVM yesterday and failed, while the same VM worked (mostly) with -no-kvm. So apparently there's more missing to it than just big real mode.
>
Was there an error message?
> I'd say that a GSoC project would rather focus on making a guest OS work than working on generic big real mode. Having Windows 98 support is way more visible to the users. And hopefully more fun to implement too, as it's a visible goal :-).
>
Big real mode allows you to boot various OSes, such as that old
Ubuntu/SuSE boot loader which triggered the whole thing.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Completing big real mode emulation
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA489BF.5020100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9CFA5BF-A97C-422B-A5F1-514C89591DD3@suse.de>
On 03/20/2010 10:34 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough Hannes just tried to boot a Windows 98 VM on SVM yesterday and failed, while the same VM worked (mostly) with -no-kvm. So apparently there's more missing to it than just big real mode.
>
Was there an error message?
> I'd say that a GSoC project would rather focus on making a guest OS work than working on generic big real mode. Having Windows 98 support is way more visible to the users. And hopefully more fun to implement too, as it's a visible goal :-).
>
Big real mode allows you to boot various OSes, such as that old
Ubuntu/SuSE boot loader which triggered the whole thing.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-20 8:39 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 [this message]
2010-03-20 8:39 ` 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
2010-03-24 0:39 ` Jamie Lokier
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