Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 98 News

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My latest patches should finally fix the hardware probe problems during 
> the Windows 98 installation. They also correct the timer issue I 
> mentionned in my previous posts.

Nice ;)

> There is still a hang up while trying to initialize the floppy 
> controller just after the second reboot of the installation (it must be 
> disabled in hw/pc.c). The CD-ROM is still not recognized properly.

How should it be disabled?
As for the CDROM issue - it make the same problem with Solaris 10 (I 
just tried it today)

> If you except these two last problems, Windows 98 should work much 
> better. The subjective speed is also _much_ better (who said QEMU VGA 
> emulation was slow ?:-)).

One thing that keeps being a problematic is the network "card" issue - 
you're asking for IRQ 9, but it's shared with IRQ 2, causing the card in 
many cases to be disabled. Could you "switch" to another more friendly 
IRQ and free it first please?

Thanks,
Hetz