Magnus,
I don't think the Windows 2000 install hack will ever be obsolete.
The installer assumes that a hard disk will take nonzero time to read
some data. QEMU always services a read in zero-guest-time. (With the
nonblocking IO patch, zero-guest-time reads still occur, when the
requested data is in the host's file cache.)
I doubt the IDE spec allows Windows to make this assumption... but the
assumption is there, and we work around it by adding a delay that's
visible to the guest.
-- John
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