Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Physical hard disk drive for win32

["Ivan Kalvachev" <ikalvachev@gmail.com>]

2007/10/22, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>:
> Ivan Kalvachev schrieb:
> > According to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365171.aspx
> >
> > this function requires Win XP or Vista.
> > Is qemu supported only on these?
> Good question. The old IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY
> was also supported for W2K. Will QEMU support W2K as a host
> longer than MS does? It would make things easier if we
> dropped support for W2K hosts.
>
> If we need host support for W2K, I'll check another method
> to get the disk size (reading size of partition 0) and send
> a new patch. Please send your feedback in this case.
>
> I hope we don't need W95 or W98 host support!?

Why not. :P

Anyway, calling the old ioctl code if the new one fails, should be
compatible enough. (and the new structure contains the old one, so no
need of having 2 variables).

It would be even better if somebody finds out what the error for not
supported function is (I don't feel like checking 16000 error codes),
but it is not critical.