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Re: [Qemu-discuss] WinXP Guest: New hardware found - VGA controller
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Narcis Garcia |
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Re: [Qemu-discuss] WinXP Guest: New hardware found - VGA controller |
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Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:43:21 +0100 |
El 25/01/17 a les 09:49, Alberto Garcia ha escrit:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:00:26AM +0100, Joe wrote:
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>> I'm trying Qemu (2.8.0) on Slackware GNU Linux 14.2 (64-bit) host.
>> I've a Windows XP (guest) raw image which was working with Qemu
>> times ago (I used it on an older Slackware version as host system).
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> The default hardware emulated by QEMU changes in each new version.
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> If it worked with an earlier version and now you find that the guest
> is detecting new hardware, try forcing the emulation of a machine from
> an older version of QEMU.
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> For example:
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> qemu-system-i386 -M pc-i440fx-1.6 -m 2G ...
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> Type 'qemu-system-i386 -M ?' for a complete list.
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> Berto
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Is there some documentation about default hardware for each QEMU version?
For similar reason, I'm interested in to use equivalent specification by
parameters, to "freeze" a lot of guests' hardware environments.