From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D4pj4-0008OT-BB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:22:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D4piy-0008Lx-DI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:22:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4piw-0008Dv-TB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:22:23 -0500 Received: from [209.55.4.212] (helo=mxo3.broadbandsupport.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D4pMn-0000ZD-KV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:59:29 -0500 Received: from atmail3.ibbsonline.com (atmail3.ibbsonline.com [209.55.3.52]) by mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7DE3B9FA for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:01:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from [209.33.77.37] (helo=computername) by atmail3.ibbsonline.com with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4pJV-0001wL-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:56:05 -0500 Message-ID: <001901c51b95$fb10b3a0$254d21d1@computername> From: References: <001401c51b8c$cdd3d330$254d21d1@computername> <1109374366.7348.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Experiences installing Win98 on WinXP host. Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:58:58 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 From: "Darryl Dixon" > Whilst I disagree with your conclusion (Qemu not ready for use!?!), = what I couldn't get Win98, Win98se, WinME or WinXP installed and running. If = I got pass the cd change problem, then I'd get a blue screen later. If I could get something other than DOS installed and working, then I = might agree with you... To me, it's not ready for use. As I tried to stress, maybe it's a = problem with the daily windows builds on FreeOSZoo. Maybe the regular = qemu version works fine. I don't know. I just know I tried 4 cvs versions (two were picked at random) and I = couldn't get Windows installed. I haven't tried every version of qemu posted, so I don't know when the = problem first showed up, or if it's been there the whole time and I just = somehow didn't notice. (I might have used a 'combined' cd with Windows = and Win3 for compliance, so I didn't need to change the cd. And maybe I = used some runtime option that somehow changed things enough that allowed = Windows 98 to install. Or maybe...[shrug]) > you mention about the CD is valid and a real problem. I haven't seen > Qemu crash because This happened 3 times. After the first time, I tried it again with = Win98, and then did it with Win98se too. > of it, but in every Windows guest OS I've tried (Win98se, WinXP, > Win2000, Win2003, Longhorn) you actually need to go into Explorer in = the > guest and tell it to eject > the CDROM (right-click -> eject) and then do the eject from the Qemu Most of the time, I only did a "change" command to change the cdrom = image. But I did try 'eject' first, and then do a 'change' and that didn't help = either. (I know that's not quite what you were talking about, but I thought it = worth mentioning.) So there's definetly a problem during the install. And from what you = say, even when you get the OS installed, there's still a problem. I don't know why nobody else has mentioned it. (If they have, then I = haven't seen it.) I don't know if this is a Windows build problem or if = the Linux versions have it too. =20 Again, I don't know if this is a regular qemu problem, or if it's a = Windows cvs build problem, or what.