Re: [Qemu-devel] Help with Windows NT 4.0

[Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

> On Aug 14, 2017, at 3:18 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 14/08/17 07:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>> On 13/08/2017 21:13, Programmingkid wrote:
>>> Lately I found out that Windows NT 4.0 seems to work well with the
>>> 486 and pentium processors. Using "-cpu 486" made installing it
>>> actually work. Now I am seeing another issue. When I boot Windows NT
>>> 4.0 I see this error message:
>>> 
>>> *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x807A8610,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000) 
>>> INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
>>> 
>>> Would anyone know a way to solve this issue?
>> 
>> Hervé is probably the best person to answer this question.  Maybe try
>> installing it with SCSI disks ("-drive if=scsi,id=hd,file=... -drive
>> if=scsi,id=cd,file=... -device lsi -device scsi-hd,drive=hd -device
>> scsi-cd,drive=cd").
> 
> FWIW I used to run NT 4.0 in QEMU 0.9.1 without too many problems,
> (although every so often the mouse would go crazy and it would require a
> reboot). The only thing I needed to do was install updated VGA drivers
> from http://www.bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbemp.htm in order to prevent
> issues with the mouse pointer not displaying correctly.
> 
> I'm also fairly sure that was with a single -hda on the command line, so
> it might be useful to go back quite far back in time to figure out what
> changed.
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.

I encountered the mouse problem also. It acts very similar to what we saw with Mac OS 9 not too long ago.