Re: Completing big real mode emulation

Avi Kivity
2010-03-20T08:39:35Z

On 03/20/2010 10:34 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> 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.

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