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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

First and foremost : I am astonished by the quality of the work that went 
into qemu. Thuis is the firs time I see a CPU emulator actually usable for 
"everyday work". It might solf by major hurdle with Linux use at work, i. 
e. running proprietary Windows software on a Linux workstation...

However, I, too, encountered some issues. I saw the same problems as 
prevous messages reported :

- W2KSPx doesn't install (disk full, due to a lot of 1 MB in C:\WINNT\Security)
- W2K (no SP) more or less installs (disk full after installation, but that 
can be cured ...). SP4 update doesn't install.
- Timeshift of 3 hours (I am also living in France).

Furthermore, I have to report that, whatever way I tried, I failed to 
install some software :

- Office 97 : fails immediately with an error related to not being able to 
read a .stf file in the CDROM (this happens whether I use a CDROM image or 
the real device)
- mozilla : installation fails during the final install.
- OpenOffice.org : fails "silently" (no error message, but no installation 
either.

There might be a small but subtle bug in the virtual machine code ?

Furthet thoughs about the virtual machine : I *think* that some 
improvements can vbe made re: usability. In particular, I wouldn't be 
adverse to a cleaner solution to networking (tun works, but is awkward). 
I'll write them after a bit more elaboration.

Sincerely,

					Emmanuel Charpentier