Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 98 News

[Jason Gress]

On Monday 03 May 2004 06:29 pm, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My latest patches should finally fix the hardware probe problems during
> the Windows 98 installation. They also correct the timer issue I
> mentionned in my previous posts.
>
> There is still a hang up while trying to initialize the floppy
> controller just after the second reboot of the installation (it must be
> disabled in hw/pc.c). The CD-ROM is still not recognized properly.
>
> If you except these two last problems, Windows 98 should work much
> better. The subjective speed is also _much_ better (who said QEMU VGA
> emulation was slow ?:-)).
>
> Fabrice.

I just wanted to confirm the improvements here.  Not only is the VGA faster 
(in Win2k and WinMe) but WinMe's hardware detection doesn't crash now, 
either. :)  It also detects the sound card if SB16 emulation is on.  You 
still have to do the network 'by hand', however.  Regardless - noticeable 
improvement!  I just wanted to confirm that WinMe is equally fixed up :)

Also Knoppix definitely updates the screen more often.  It's hard to tell 
if/how much it is faster otherwise.  That's a pretty slow system overall, but 
it's still pretty neat!  Frozen-Bubble starts, but the bubbles move a bit on 
the slow side.  ;)  I wonder how much speed difference the true color from 
Knoppix Vesa SVGA makes?  Or is it something else linux specific, or perhaps 
the cdrom image reading code is slow?  I run it from an iso image which qemu 
is told is the cdrom drive.  There is no hda image.

Thanks for your great work!

        Jason

P.S.  CVS ebuilds rock - I found this somewhere (on this list? - can't 
remember what google did for me) but if someone wants a perfectly working one 
let me know :)