RE: APM bug Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Suggestion - trap window-close of VM

["Andreas Bollhalder" <bolle@geodb.org>]

My Windows XP guests are also unable to power off QEMU. As I know,
there is the posibillity to install W2K or XP without ACPI support.
Has anyone tried that ? Could it be, that the default installation of
Windows with ACPI disable the APM support ? My brain is remembering
something... Win98 guest closes QEMU fine.

Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qemu-devel-bounces+bolle=geodb.org@nongnu.org 
> [mailto:qemu-devel-bounces+bolle=geodb.org@nongnu.org] On 
> Behalf Of Struan Bartlett
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:22 PM
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Subject: APM bug Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Suggestion - trap 
> window-close of VM
> 
> 
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> Paul Brook wrote:
> 
> >>This isn't working quite right for me with a Windows 98 guest --
it
> >>traps the attempt to close the window all right, but it doesn't
let
> >>the window close even when Window 98 has in fact shut down. 
> >>    
> >>
> >In theory windows should be able to "turn off" qemu using 
> APM, like it does on 
> >real machines. However there seem to be bugs in the qemu 
> implementation that 
> >stop this working.
> >  
> >
> I thought I'd have a little look into why Windows 2000 
> doesn't turn off 
> qemu using APM properly. I enabled DEBUG_BIOS in hw/pc.c then 
> downloaded 
> the latest Debian source for the Bochs bios v1.121 and defined 
> DEBUG_ROMBIOS and DEBUG_APM both to be 1. I recompiled and 
> installed the 
> bios and ran qemu to load up Windows 2000. What we get seems 
> interesting. By the time Qemu boots Windows 2000 to its first 
> progress-bar, it has printed the following debug statements (with my

> explanation added in square brackets):
> 
> APM: EAX=00005300 [53 is the int 15h identifier for APM 
> checked for in 
> rombios.c. 00 is the APM installation check function]
> APM: EAX=00005301 [01 is the APM real mode interface connect]
> APM: EAX=0000530e [0e appears to request APM driver version]
> APM: EAX=00005300 [00, again, is the APM installation check - why is

> this called twice?]
> APM: EAX=00005304 [04 is APM interface disconnect]
> 
> Then, while Windows 2000 boots and until shutdown is 
> complete, I get no 
> more debug statements. My question is, why not? I'm no APM 
> expert but, 
> judging from the 'apmbios.S' comments I might expect to see APM: 
> EAX=00005303 [03 is APM 32 bit protected mode interface connect]. I 
> could speculate that the return code from APM function 0e does not 
> satisfy Windows 2000 for some reason, so it does another
installation 
> check and then disconnects the APM interface entirely - hence no APM

> functionality in Windows 2000.
> 
> If I get more time I may research the APM functions more 
> fully. In the 
> meantime, if anyone can suggest any alternative theories or 
> how to test 
> them, I'd be curious.
> 
> Struan
> 
> 
> 
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