Re: [Qemu-devel] On block interface types in general, IF_AHCI in particular

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 31/10/2012 17:35, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
>>> My Paul is Windows XP. I'm not sure about 2k3. Older Windows
>>> versions are probably not relevant any more in practice and
>>> requiring an explicit option may be reasonable.
>> 
>> 2k3 doesn't do AHCI, either.  There may be drivers around for
>> both, but not out-of-the-box.
> Does 2k3 work on any recent machine out-of-the-box then?

No.  That's why people use VMs though.

> I don't think it's too bad to tell people to use -M piix for xp and 2k3.

In a few releases it won't.  For now, it is.

Paolo