[Qemu-devel] WinXP status

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

Hi,

I can install WinXP without any problems. It is normal WinXP without any 
service packs under academic licence. It automagically selected higher 
resolution without any external drivers (although it does not recognize 
the type of graphic card).

But I formated my partition (one drive, one partition about 2.5GB, dd 
image) to ntfs (quick format). So I cannot copy network and graphic 
drivers to it from linux. So I created second 50MB image, attached to hdb 
and formated under windows to fat. Then I mounted it under linux and 
copied three small files on it. I "booted" into WinXP back and the 
second drive was gone. I checked in device manager and there was some 
error that this device is already present in system. So I deleted it and 
rebooted. I made few more tests and the second image can be seen in My 
Computer only if it is attached to hdd. But even if it is, WinXP can 
detect that it is nearly free fat partition but can not see any files
or directories on it.

Did I do something wrong? Or is the qemu disk emulation broken? And what 
with qemu dma support for disks (disk seem to work in pio mode)?


Thanks in advance,

Grzegorz Kulewski