On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:41:46AM -0400, John Coiner wrote: > > Magnus, > > I don't think the Windows 2000 install hack will ever be obsolete. > > The installer assumes that a hard disk will take nonzero time to read > some data. QEMU always services a read in zero-guest-time. (With the > nonblocking IO patch, zero-guest-time reads still occur, when the > requested data is in the host's file cache.) > > I doubt the IDE spec allows Windows to make this assumption... but the > assumption is there, and we work around it by adding a delay that's > visible to the guest.
There are other bugs in the IDE emulation.. I need to try this latest patch, but with the previous DMA patch (without non-blocking support) having a disk image on an AFS filesystem just did not work at all. I am also haveing trouble getting a fresh win2k install under qemu to actually be able to run windows update. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
