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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:58:16 -0400
From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is it possible run qemu on windows nt ?
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:08:38AM +0200, WarownyR@zus.pl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I downloaded qemu from internet (the .exe binary) and try to run it on
> windows nt. but it fails to start. It just exits silently and nothing
> happens. This is polish version of windows nt workstation with service pack
> 6. I tried different versions of qemu from 0.7.0 to 0.7.2 but with the same
> resoult. Here are the commands I run, and it's output:
> 
> qemu freedos.dsk
> echo %ERRORLEVEL%
> 0

My guess: you need the -L option to tell qemu where the bios files are.

The reason you see no errors is due to a bad design on the part of qemu for
windows: it doesn't write the errors onto a console window. There are ways to
correct for this, though.

> 
> Radek
> 

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