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

2010-03-24 Thread Sheng Yang
On Saturday 20 March 2010 23:00:49 Alexander Graf wrote: Am 20.03.2010 um 15:02 schrieb Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2010 10:55 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: I'd say that a GSoC project would rather focus on

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

2010-03-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
Avi Kivity wrote: Either way - then we should make the goal of the project to support those old boot loaders. IMHO it should contain visibility. Doing theoretical stuff is just less fun for all parties. Or does that stuff work already? Mostly those old guests aged beyond usefulness. They

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

2010-03-20 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/19/2010 05:29 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: Hello all, As some of you might know, I've worked on supporting big real mode emulation on VMX back in GSoC 2008. Looking at the Qemu GSoC ideas list for this year, I found it among the possible ideas for a GSoC project. I'd be interested in driving

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

2010-03-20 Thread Alexander Graf
On 20.03.2010, at 08:49, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/19/2010 05:29 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: Hello all, As some of you might know, I've worked on supporting big real mode emulation on VMX back in GSoC 2008. Looking at the Qemu GSoC ideas list for this year, I found it among the possible ideas

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

2010-03-20 Thread 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

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

2010-03-20 Thread Alexander Graf
On 20.03.2010, at 09:39, Avi Kivity wrote: 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

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

2010-03-20 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/20/2010 10:55 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: 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 :-).

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

2010-03-20 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2010 10:55 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: 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

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

2010-03-20 Thread Alexander Graf
Am 20.03.2010 um 15:02 schrieb Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/20/2010 10:55 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: I'd say that a GSoC project would rather focus on making a guest OS work than working on generic big real