From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:17:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106221711.GB25563@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901062140.46557.frank.mehnert@sun.com>
Frank Mehnert wrote:
> * the PIIX3/PIIX4 ATA controller (almost completely rewritten, you
> might find 5% of the code in the QEMU ATA emulation)
PIIX4 is needed if you're importing a Microsoft Virtual PC image with
a Windows guest. It won't boot on PIIX3 without some fiddly register
changes, due to Windows booting silliness. QEMU uses PIIX3, making
such imports fiddly.
> * backends for VDI, VMDK, VHD file formats
I wonder if the VHD (Virtual PC) backend is more reliable than QEMU's
VHD backend. I've seen consistently corrupt images when QEMU reads a
VHD, whether in QEMU proper or using qemu-img to convert.
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-24 12:48 [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu? Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 13:17 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-12-24 13:26 ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-12-24 13:31 ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-12-24 13:36 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-24 14:33 ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 14:51 ` Jernej Simončič
2008-12-24 15:02 ` Paul Brook
2008-12-24 15:29 ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-24 20:52 ` Liraz Siri
[not found] ` <E71DFB2B-0B73-46AE-B423-0BF605A9D679@hotmail.com>
2008-12-25 4:37 ` C.W. Betts
2008-12-25 7:06 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25 7:07 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25 7:08 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-25 14:51 ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-25 16:14 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-24 23:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-12-25 7:11 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-24 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-24 20:21 ` Liraz Siri
2008-12-24 20:55 ` Liraz Siri
2009-01-05 21:12 ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-05 22:03 ` Stefan Weil
2009-01-05 23:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-06 7:41 ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-06 15:46 ` Blue Swirl
2009-01-06 17:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-06 20:40 ` Frank Mehnert
2009-01-06 22:17 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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