Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Christopher Nehren]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:27:13 EDT, Hetz Ben Hamo scribbled these
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> Hi,
> 
> It seems that few people had succsess stories while installing XP while 
> other had various crashes (in guest OS)...
> 
> To those who had those problems, could you please try to describe in 
> much details the problems?

It just segfaults, leaving a hefty 100-200 MB core file in its wake.
Running said core through gdb invariably gives a 'cannot access memory
at 0x$foo' error. Since I don't know gdb too well, and since the only
manual is in GNU info format, which I abhor (replacing man pages? What
was RMS smoking / sniffing / injecting? Er, never mind. I don't want to
know), I doubt that I'll be able to provide any more information than
that.

> What I would like to know:
> 
> * Which Windows XP version is it (MSDN, XP Volume CD, OEM, Home, Pro, etc)

XP Pro.

> * If you managed to install XP, have you managed to run the wordpad 
> program? (the "word processor" which is included in XP).

Not yet.

> * Where exactly did the crash happend

Various places, mostly after the "Installing drivers" stage.

> * Did you create users? if so, how many?

Never got the chance to do so.

> I understood that using the -pci or -pci -cirrusvga parameters makes any 
>  XP installation crashes. Does it happend to you if you install XP from 
> scratch?

Again, I haven't been able to successfully install with any options in
order to make a comparison.

-- 
I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson
-
Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.

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