From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Y1G-0001Vk-Cg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:48:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Y1D-0001RA-Sq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:48:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Y1D-0001R3-QN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:48:35 -0500 Received: from [66.249.92.172] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0Y1D-0002Fe-Ca for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:48:35 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so4313493ugd for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:48:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45960BBA.9060307@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:48:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] boot a preinstalled winxp on linux/x86: writing a patch... References: <200612280213.11840.rpolli@babel.it> <459397D8.5050800@mail.berlios.de> <200612281322.22359.rpolli@babel.it> In-Reply-To: <200612281322.22359.rpolli@babel.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Dirk Behme 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 Roberto Polli wrote: > Alle 11:09, giovedì 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 installation? > 2- is this pbm equivalent to the "move my hd to another pc with different > 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 to > the mbr > > Thank you very much for your explanation, these are very helpful! Do you think > I should put something about this thread in the wiki? Forums are full of such > these question! I think parts of this are already in Wiki: http://kidsquid.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-a1fc78523d7c7d256a29bac4577cd728be70eedd Do you think this is sufficent? If not, feel free to extend it. Dirk