From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOt4-0006bS-3S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:20:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOlA-0004YD-JR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:12:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOl4-0004Ql-4J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:11:50 -0500 Received: from [209.55.4.211] (helo=mxo2.broadbandsupport.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCODl-0005W6-J4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:37:25 -0500 Received: from atmail1.ibbsonline.com (atmail1.ibbsonline.com [209.55.3.50]) by mxo2.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E3F3F5E8 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:37:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from [209.33.77.51] (helo=computername) by atmail1.ibbsonline.com with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCO57-0007l0-B2 for Qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:28:29 -0500 Message-ID: <001501c52bf9$0a8a1600$334d21d1@computername> From: Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:28:06 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] Any progress with fixing Windows on Windows builds? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Qemu-devel@nongnu.org I've been gone for a few weeks and I was wondering if there had been any = progress in fixing the Windows on Windows problems. Problems like: 1) unable to reliably change the cd image during windows install, = meaning unable to verify upgrade install. 2) Windows installation itself giving a blue screen. And so on. I did a very quick check with the 20050313a windows build from = FreeOSZoo, and it doesn't look like anything has been fixed. (I = certainly didn't do as much testing as I did some weeks ago when I = commented in here about the problems.) Is anybody even investigating these problems? Currently Qemu is pretty useless for windows host users.... Even = freeDOS & Dr.DOS don't even really run right. MSDOS 6 seems to, but I = didn't do enough testing back then to be sure. Considering that supposedly Windows (and all these other OS's) can = install under Qemu running on Linux, then I would tend to suspect that = it might be some Windows specific code in qemu that's the problem. Or = maybe the compiler. Or maybe sdl.... I don't know enough about qemu to really know for sure, though. Maybe you Linux developers need to install Windows (perhaps under = vmware, if you don't have a spare partition?) and start doing a bit of = testing of the windows builds.