[Qemu-devel] Re: Completing big real mode emulation

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/20/2010 10:34 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Interestingly enough Hannes just tried to boot a Windows 98 VM on SVM yesterday 
> and failed, while the same VM worked (mostly) with -no-kvm. So apparently 
> there's more missing to it than just big real mode.
>    

Was there an error message?

> I'd say that a GSoC project would rather focus on making a guest OS work than 
> working on generic big real mode. Having Windows 98 support is way more visible 
> to the users. And hopefully more fun to implement too, as it's a visible goal 
> :-).
>    

Big real mode allows you to boot various OSes, such as that old 
Ubuntu/SuSE boot loader which triggered the whole thing.

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