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

2007-10-25 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > Staying backwards compatible in this case is so easy, it is not even > > > funny. (And certainly no reason to groan over having to support it.) > > > > A undirected remark

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

2007-10-24 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Stefan Weil wrote: > Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > > I think I fixed it. Since I am not your regular Windows user (I only > > use Windows when I have to), I cannot tell if it works, though. > > > > It is here: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/dscho.git?a=shortlog;h=diskgeo

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

2007-10-24 Thread Stefan Weil
Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > I think I fixed it. Since I am not your regular Windows user (I only use > > Windows when I have to), I cannot tell if it works, though. > > It is here: http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/dscho.git?a=shortlog;h=diskgeometry > > Any testing (especially the physical drive on Wind

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

2007-10-24 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Staying backwards compatible in this case is so easy, it is not even > > funny. (And certainly no reason to groan over having to support it.) > > A undirected remark to the general public: If somebody comes up wi

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

2007-10-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Ivan Kalvachev wrote: > > > 2007/10/22, Stefan Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Ivan Kalvachev schrieb: > > > > According to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365171.aspx > > > > > > > > this function requires Win XP or Vista. > >

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

2007-10-24 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Ivan Kalvachev wrote: > 2007/10/22, Stefan Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 q

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

2007-10-24 Thread Ivan Kalvachev
2007/10/22, Stefan Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 suppo

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

2007-10-22 Thread Jamie Lokier
Shaddy Baddah wrote: > >longer than MS does? It would make things easier if we > >dropped support for W2K hosts. > > > Surely not?!? I've heard of people being off hand about supporting > Win95/98 (and I would agree with that) et al..., but surely W2K support > should be sacrosanct ?!? I would h

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

2007-10-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Stefan Weil wrote: longer than MS does? It would make things easier if we dropped support for W2K hosts. Surely not?!? I've heard of people being off hand about supporting Win95/98 (and I would agree with that) et al..., but surely W2K support should be sacrosanct ?!? Regards, Shaddy

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

2007-10-22 Thread 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 supp

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

2007-10-22 Thread Stefan Weil
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 M

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

2007-10-22 Thread Ivan Kalvachev
2007/10/19, Stefan Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > raw harddisk access for Windows (//./PhysicalDrive0) gives wrong disk sizes. > You can check this by booting a harddisk with the GRUB bootloader installed > and using GRUB's geometry command. > > The current QEMU code uses IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_

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

2007-10-19 Thread Stefan Weil
Hi, raw harddisk access for Windows (//./PhysicalDrive0) gives wrong disk sizes. You can check this by booting a harddisk with the GRUB bootloader installed and using GRUB's geometry command. The current QEMU code uses IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY which is marked as obsolete by MS. The appended