Re: [Qemu-devel] x86_64 support

[Michael McConnell]

Andrew Wilkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:24:11 +0100, Fabrice Bellard <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > With the patches I just commited the x86_64 target should be much more
> > usable. Moreover, QEMU should now compile correctly on x86_64 hosts.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd just like to report that QEMU does now compile on my AMD64
> machine, and the i386-softmmu target does run. I can't complete an
> install of Windows 2000 however, I get BSODs
> (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA) during the second stage of the install.
> I don't know if this is a specific problem with QEMU or QEMU on x86_64
> however.

For what it's worth, I managed to get Win2000 installed using a PIII machine.
(I did have to fiddle with -hdachs - Win2000 refused to use a 2Gb disc with 
1023,64,63 setting as autodetected by QEMU, but was quite happy with 4092,16,63.)

> Keep up the good work!

Definitely!

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