From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Completing big real mode emulation Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:39:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20100324003921.GH20130@shareable.org> References: <52d4a3891003190829o6964dd0bv8d2c86c61da247b2@mail.gmail.com> <4BA47E15.3020204@redhat.com> <4BA489BF.5020100@redhat.com> <6C31E9BD-D340-4FBA-BF76-FF335E6B12EE@suse.de> <4BA4CB17.3080604@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alexander Graf , Mohammed Gamal , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:60508 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505Ab0CXAj2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:39:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA4CB17.3080604@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > >Either way - then we should make the goal of the project to support those > >old boot loaders. IMHO it should contain visibility. Doing theoretical > >stuff is just less fun for all parties. Or does that stuff work already? > > Mostly those old guests aged beyond usefulness. They are still broken, > but nobody installs new images. Old images installed via workarounds work. Hey :) I still install old OSes occasionally, so that I can build and test code that will run on other people's still-running old machines. -- Jamie