From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCW0k-0002wQ-LK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:10:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCW0i-0002uV-BI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:10:05 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCW0i-0002uG-3y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:10:04 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCW0h-0005ZT-OJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:10:04 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.250]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCW0d-0000Sx-3h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:09:59 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b38so45509ana.130 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:09:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:39:57 +0530 From: "Anup Gangwar" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Windows Vista 64 bit on QEMU In-Reply-To: <20080109.001759.1689649612.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_21665_2413544.1199866197776" References: <20080109.001759.1689649612.imp@bsdimp.com> 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 ------=_Part_21665_2413544.1199866197776 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In one of the posts for Vista on QEMU someone had mentioned that ACPI is to be blamed. In one of the subsequent posts it was pointed that ACPI is supported quite well in EFI BIOS. This is the reason I had mentioned that it no longer works with QEMU. The goal still remains to get Vista 64-bit working on QEMU and if EFI BIOS will not help then I will not pursue it any further. Any further pointers to get Vista running on QEMU will be appreciated. Regards, Anup On Jan 9, 2008 12:47 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > "C.W. Betts" writes: > : Don't take my word for it, but I don't think AMD64 (or EM64T) uses > : efi. I'd look it up for myself, but I gotta go to bed. > > Generally speaking they don't. Apple Intel Macs are the only ones I > know that use efi, apart from some extreme nitch gear that does... > > Warner > > > ------=_Part_21665_2413544.1199866197776 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In one of the posts for Vista on QEMU someone had mentioned that ACPI is to be blamed. In one of the subsequent posts it was pointed that ACPI is supported quite well in EFI BIOS. This is the reason I had mentioned that it no longer works with QEMU.

The goal still remains to get Vista 64-bit working on QEMU and if EFI BIOS will not help then I will not pursue it any further.

Any further pointers to get Vista running on QEMU will be appreciated.

Regards,

Anup

On Jan 9, 2008 12:47 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
In message: <BAY133-DAV13971AB87CE09C6B82FFC9B9490@phx.gbl>
           "C.W. Betts" <computers57@hotmail.com > writes:
: Don't take my word for it, but I don't think AMD64 (or EM64T) uses
: efi.  I'd look it up for myself, but I gotta go to bed.

Generally speaking they don't.  Apple Intel Macs are the only ones I
know that use efi, apart from some extreme nitch gear that does...

Warner



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