[Qemu-devel] Win2K status...

[Qemu-devel] Win2K status...

[Lionel Ulmer]

Hi all,

Just a quick status of where I am :-)

My version of QEMU is CVS but with network (do not manage to get
/dev/net/tun0 working anyway) and sound disabled (did not check with the fix
that was comitted this week-end for SB16).

The installation went fine (no problem at all).

The problems remaining :

 - when booting in 'normal' mode, I get a nice Black screen when Win2K
   leaves 'VGA' mode and try to load the real graphical driver (it works
   fine when I disable in the code the S3 emulation code => must be either a
   bug in QEMU's S3 code or in the X86 code generated from the S3 driver
   code).

 - when booting in VGA (or Safe) mode, it works fine (in 800x600x16
   colours).

 - when installing the Bochs VBE drivers (found here
   http://dhenriq.en.eresmas.com/), the screen is completely garbled when I
   boot (you can see a screenshot here : http://www.bbrox.org/qemu_vbe.png)

As I never touched low-level VGA programming, the 'vga.c' code looks like
chinese for me (and I really have no idea how to debug it).

But apart from these problems, it works really well :-)

         Lionel

-- 
		 Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/

Re: [Qemu-devel] Win2K status...

[Jean-Michel POURE]

>  - when booting in 'normal' mode, I get a nice Black screen when Win2K
>    leaves 'VGA' mode and try to load the real graphical driver (it works
>    fine when I disable in the code the S3 emulation code => must be either
> a bug in QEMU's S3 code or in the X86 code generated from the S3 driver
> code).
>  - when booting in VGA (or Safe) mode, it works fine (in 800x600x16
>    colours).
>  - when installing the Bochs VBE drivers (found here
>    http://dhenriq.en.eresmas.com/), the screen is completely garbled when I
>    boot (you can see a screenshot here : http://www.bbrox.org/qemu_vbe.png)

I can report the same for Win2k, with these differences:

- ne2000 patch from Renzo brings network card detection during installation. 
Network seems to work fine.

- I was not able to install several free software (including pgAdmin III for 
example) and got several explorer.exe segfaults.

Apart from that, Qemu seems very promissing and is lightning fast.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel