Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Physical hard disk drive for win32

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Stefan Weil wrote:

> Ivan Kalvachev schrieb:
> > According to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365171.aspx
> >
> > this function requires Win XP or Vista.
> > Is qemu supported only on these?
>
> Good question. The old IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY was also supported 
> for W2K. Will QEMU support W2K as a host longer than MS does? It would 
> make things easier if we dropped support for W2K hosts.

Do we really want to be as evil as Microsoft and force all users to 
upgrade?

It should not be _that_ hard to stay at least a _little_ backwards 
compatible.

Ciao,
Dscho