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Re: [Qemu-devel] What happened to linuxppc-img from Freeoszoo
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Jim C. Brown |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] What happened to linuxppc-img from Freeoszoo |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:24:36 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:12:43PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> Right... But most of the images on FreeOSZoo were done using the *old*
> version of qemu, where the geometry is different.
>
> That means the geometry on the images may not be what newer versions of qemu
> expect.
>
> I did know that a lot of the images on there are older ones that may
> have problems like reactos did, which is why I said that somebody needed to
> actually test each one, just to make sure they still work.
> That's why I was asking what the date of the image was.
>
For the record, the OpenBSD and the NetBSD images (which I downloaded from the
OS Zoo back in July of '04) work perfectly fine.
> > For the record, images I've used since qemu 0.5.2 still work fine with
> > CVS.
> > (I only use raw images though.)
>
> That's good for you.
>
> But some don't.
>
> The ReactOS image is a case I tested myself. When I saw it reported on the
> qemu forum, it was small enough that I spent a few minutes downloading it to
> test it.
>
> And newer versions of qemu most definetly would not handle it. Older
> versions (before the geometry change) could, though.
>
The bochs image of ReactOS 0.2.2-FINAL (the one that you'd get from the
reactos web site) still boots fine. I haven't tried the one from freeoszoo tho.
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