Re: [Qemu-devel] VCPI & muLinux

[malc]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> I tried to install muLinux (a mini-distro, stored on several floppies) via the
> DOS mode option. (The DOS, in turn, was running under qemu on my linux 
> system.)
>
> Suprise, suprise, it failed. Apparently, muLinux loads up Linux to run the
> installer. Linux, in turn, needs loadlin.exe to load. And loadlin.exe needs
> VCPI, which qemu doesn't support (or so it seems anyways).

Erm.. VCPI is API to enter/leave protected mode how can QEMU support it?
In any case all programs that need VCPI run just fine over here, given
that you have emm386(or substitute) loaded.

>
> This is not a big deal at this point (I can just hack the linux installer
> script to install to image files instead of real floppies) but I am
> curious: Are we going to support VCPI in the future?
>
> BTW, does qemu support superformatted floppy images (as those made via
> /dev/fd0u1722) ?
>
>

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