Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bug Day - June 1st, 2010

[Michael Tokarev]

20.05.2010 02:30, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 05:29 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Also, thanks to Andre Przywara, whole winNT thing works but it requires
> > > -cpu qemu64,level=1 (or level=2 or =3), -- _not_ with default CPU. This
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> It'd be nice if we had more flexibility in defining custom machine types
> so you could just do qemu -M win98.

This is wrong IMHO.  win98 and winNT can run on various different
machines, including all modern ones (yes I tried the same winNT
on my Athlon X2-64, just had to switch SATA from AHCI to IDE;
win95 works too)...  just not in kvm :)

> > BTW: Does anyone knows what the problem with Windows95/98 on KVM is? I
> > tried some tracing today, but couldn't find a hint.

Um.  The bugreport(s) come as a surprize for me: I tried to
install win98 in kvm several times in the past but setup
always failed - different messages in different versions
of kvm, either "unable to emulate" or "real mode trap" or
something else, or just lockup, usually on first reboot.
So - the bugreports talks about mouse non-working, but
this means win98 itself works somehow...  I dunno :)

/mjt