Re: [Xen-devel] HVM and WIndows NT

[mats petersson <mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A while (> 2 years ago), I'm sure I ran up Windows NT on Xen 3.0 or
3.1. But that was on an AMD processor, and it's highly likely that the
BIOS / NT interaction  is broken in the Intel only "simulation of
real-mode via vritual 8086 mode". The AMD processors support true Real
Mode in Virtual machine mode.

Of course, this may all have changed a huge amount, so do not rely on
my information.

--
Mats

2009/8/6 Alexandre CABROL PERALES <alexandre.cabrol@xxxxxxxx>:
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> Hi everybody,
> i'm currently trying to run Windows NT 4.0 on Xen.
>
> I can install it with Xen 3.3 and CPUID below:
> # Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
>
> cpuid = [
> '0x00000000:eax=0x00000002,ebx=0x756e6547,ecx=0x6c65746e,edx=0x49656e69',
>
> '0x00000001:eax=0x00000f12,ebx=0x00010808,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x3febfbff',
>
> '0x00000002:eax=0x665b5001,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x007a7040',
>
> '0x80000000:eax=0x80000004,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x00000000',
>
> '0x80000001:eax=0x00000000,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x00000000',
>
> '0x80000002:eax=0x20202020,ebx=0x20202020,ecx=0x20202020,edx=0x6e492020',
>
> '0x80000003:eax=0x286c6574,ebx=0x50202952,ecx=0x69746e65,edx=0x52286d75',
>
> '0x80000004:eax=0x20342029,ebx=0x20555043,ecx=0x30352e31,edx=0x007a4847',
>          ]
>
>
>
> But i have an issue with Video Card emulation of Xen 3.3.1 :
> when i use Cirrus Logic emulation,
> during display test the system crash with yellow or green screen.
>
> It seems that Cirrus emulation didn't support the resizing.
>
> If i try stdvga mode the videocard is not recognised by Windows NT.
>
> I tried on KVM and it works fine with cirrus logic emulation.
>
>
>
> Is there any way to update qemu-dm with current qemu version ?
>
>
> regards,
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