From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Booting up an old Windows 3.1 harddisk image Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:11:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4E9D7AFC.2010304@redhat.com> References: <20124.53132.479840.952606@quad.stoffel.home> <4E9D57FE.6050903@redhat.com> <20125.31291.352925.293066@quad.stoffel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18097 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757761Ab1JRNLg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:11:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20125.31291.352925.293066@quad.stoffel.home> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/18/2011 03:08 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "Avi" == Avi Kivity writes: > > Avi> On 10/18/2011 02:59 AM, John Stoffel wrote: > >> Hi Guys, > >> > >> I'm not a subscriber to the kvm mailing list, so please copy me in > >> your replies. > >> > >> I've got an old image of an i486 disk running (I think!) Windows 3.1 > >> which I want to bring up and play with, just to make sure I can use > >> it. > >> > >> > file hda-caroline486.image > >> hda-caroline486.image: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP mbr; > >> partition 1: ID=0x6, active, starthead 1, startsector 17, 254983 > >> sectors, code offset 0x33 > >> > >> I basically just dd'd the entire disk into a file. I can mount it > >> using a loop device and then examine the partitions, so I think it's > >> fine from that viewpoint. > >> > >> My server is a Debian 5.0 box, running on AMD Quad Core CPU, 8gb of > >> RAM. > > Avi> What's the host kernel version? > > I thought I was running the stock Debian version, but I'm actually > running my own 3.1.0-rc4 kernel. A bit out of date, but I don't > remember seeing any major KVM breakage in the later part of the > 3.1-rc# series. > > Linux version 3.1.0-rc4-custom (john@quad) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian > 4.4.5-8) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 31 12:12:32 EDT 2011 That's plenty recent. I was worried about having an old emulator. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function