From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzuHH-0006y5-6z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:22:31 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzuHF-0006wy-Ce for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:22:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzuHF-0006wr-8B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:22:29 -0500 Received: from [81.208.88.103] (helo=postalo.babel.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GzuHE-0002KW-Rp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:22:29 -0500 Received: from ananke.babel.int (unknown [10.0.10.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postalo.babel.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A2C9B6EA for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:22:26 +0100 (CET) From: Roberto Polli Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch... Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:22:21 +0100 References: <200612280213.11840.rpolli@babel.it> <459397D8.5050800@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <459397D8.5050800@mail.berlios.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612281322.22359.rpolli@babel.it> 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 Hi Alle 11:09, gioved=EC 28 dicembre 2006, Stefan Weil ha scritto: > booting a preinstalled winxp fails because Windows XP > crashs...and ... reboot. It won't fail if the real hardware and > QEMU's virtual hardware are nearly identical. ok > Especially the chipset seams to be critical. 1- so we should have one qemu "chipset emulator" for each winxp installatio= n? 2- is this pbm equivalent to the "move my hd to another pc with different=20 mainboard" one? 3- if I solve pbm 2, should I solve pbm 1? > /dev/hda1 is the first partition which is part of > /dev/hda (whole disk) yes, i mistakenly thought that part of the windows bootloader was related t= o=20 the mbr Thank you very much for your explanation, these are very helpful! Do you th= ink=20 I should put something about this thread in the wiki? Forums are full of su= ch=20 these question! Greetings, R. =2D-=20 Roberto Polli Babel S.r.l. - http://www.babel.it Tel. +39.06.91801075 - fax +39.06.91612446 P.zza S.Benedetto da Norcia, 33 - 00040 Pomezia (Roma)