From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTbVD-0001v0-9R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:50:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTbV6-0002XG-Mu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:50:51 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:60211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTbV6-0002WY-6z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:50:44 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id fb10so1055496pad.4 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <509156DC.9030703@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:50:36 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <87k3u82f7b.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <509000E8.9090703@redhat.com> <509008A3.5060908@redhat.com> <87txtbu0jg.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <878vamn3ok.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <50914FF0.6060305@redhat.com> <5091529F.5030603@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] On block interface types in general, IF_AHCI in particular List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Kevin Wolf , Stefan Hajnoczi , Jason Baron , Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann , Anthony Liguori Il 31/10/2012 17:35, Alexander Graf ha scritto: >>> My Paul is Windows XP. I'm not sure about 2k3. Older Windows >>> versions are probably not relevant any more in practice and >>> requiring an explicit option may be reasonable. >> >> 2k3 doesn't do AHCI, either. There may be drivers around for >> both, but not out-of-the-box. > Does 2k3 work on any recent machine out-of-the-box then? No. That's why people use VMs though. > I don't think it's too bad to tell people to use -M piix for xp and 2k3. In a few releases it won't. For now, it is. Paolo