From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Reza Jelveh <fishman@saucelabs.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] acpi: add reset register to fadt
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:59:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551956BC.5040605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOVGsrM_weMN+bVihnCEkb=7exJhCBo-r9n1=iadu2RO8ByzsQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 30/03/2015 15:27, Reza Jelveh wrote:
> you are extending structure beyond of what specified by ACPI 1.0b spec,
> that might break guests.
> We probably can't change revision since Windows ACPI implementation
> is mostly 1.0b based so we are stuck with it.
> Patch needs to be tested with Windows guests starting with XP.
>
> Works fine with XP as long as you don't use q35, but i guess that's
> unsupported by xp by default.
Isn't that just because XP doesn't have an AHCI driver? You should
still be able to use XP with q35 and virtio, by using a driver disk. Or
add a PATA controller:
-device piix4-ide,id=pata \
-drive if=none,id=hd,file=... \
-device ide-hd,drive=hd,bus=pata.0
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-30 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-28 14:46 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] acpi: add reset register to fadt Reza Jelveh
2015-03-29 17:38 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2015-03-30 13:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-30 12:36 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-03-30 13:27 ` Reza Jelveh
2015-03-30 13:49 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-03-30 13:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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