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Re: [Qemu-devel] Some trials about W2K
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Emmanuel Charpentier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Some trials about W2K |
Date: |
Mon, 17 May 2004 12:50:46 +0200 |
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First and foremost : I am astonished by the quality of the work that went
into qemu. Thuis is the firs time I see a CPU emulator actually usable for
"everyday work". It might solf by major hurdle with Linux use at work, i.
e. running proprietary Windows software on a Linux workstation...
However, I, too, encountered some issues. I saw the same problems as
prevous messages reported :
- W2KSPx doesn't install (disk full, due to a lot of 1 MB in C:\WINNT\Security)
- W2K (no SP) more or less installs (disk full after installation, but that
can be cured ...). SP4 update doesn't install.
- Timeshift of 3 hours (I am also living in France).
Furthermore, I have to report that, whatever way I tried, I failed to
install some software :
- Office 97 : fails immediately with an error related to not being able to
read a .stf file in the CDROM (this happens whether I use a CDROM image or
the real device)
- mozilla : installation fails during the final install.
- OpenOffice.org : fails "silently" (no error message, but no installation
either.
There might be a small but subtle bug in the virtual machine code ?
Furthet thoughs about the virtual machine : I *think* that some
improvements can vbe made re: usability. In particular, I wouldn't be
adverse to a cleaner solution to networking (tun works, but is awkward).
I'll write them after a bit more elaboration.
Sincerely,
Emmanuel Charpentier