[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: Firefox crashes inside qemu

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:36:30PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
>> >> Firefox will crash. I suppose that there is some bug in the CPU
>> >> emulation.
>> >> 
>> >> How can I help debugging this problem further?
>> > 
>> > Can you try that disk image on a 'real' machine and see if it crashes
>> > then also?
>> 
>> I instaled win2k from the same CD to a real computer. Firefox downloaded
>> from the same URL doesn't crash under the same condition.
> 
> There are many different factors in both scenarios besides that one of
> them uses qemu and the other one does not: disk size, video card, network
> card, etc.
> 
> 
>> But how do I test a qemu image on a real machine?
> 
> I would just dd it to an old IDE disk, even though that might give issues
> with differing head/sector counts.
> 
> dd if=disk.img of=/dev/hdx bs=1024k
> 
> (Where /dev/hdx is the old IDE disk.)

I see. The problem is that I don't have any old IDE disk at hand. But I will
dd that into VMware tomorrow in order to see if the installation is really
bad. As for the geometry, the doc at
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/files/boot.html is known sufficient
for fixing such issues.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov