From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Physical hard disk drive for win32
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:07:35 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710222006540.25221@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471CEB10.9030600@mail.berlios.de>
Hi,
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Stefan Weil wrote:
> 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.
Do we really want to be as evil as Microsoft and force all users to
upgrade?
It should not be _that_ hard to stay at least a _little_ backwards
compatible.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-24 4:01 [Qemu-devel] Physical hard disk drive for win32 Kazu
2006-09-24 9:14 ` Alexey Eremenko
2006-09-24 12:10 ` Kazu
2007-10-19 20:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Stefan Weil
2007-10-22 11:33 ` Ivan Kalvachev
2007-10-22 18:25 ` Stefan Weil
2007-10-22 19:07 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-10-23 0:31 ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-10-23 3:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2007-10-24 9:46 ` Ivan Kalvachev
2007-10-24 10:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-24 12:33 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-10-24 17:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-24 18:41 ` Stefan Weil
2007-10-25 0:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 10:04 ` Thiemo Seufer
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