RE: OS can't find simulated SCSI CD-ROM / assigning bus

You may be having an issue due to needing to assign a bus to devices attached to the controller. Please see this example for a Dc390 with a cd and hdd attached. -device dc390,id=scsi1 -device scsi-cd,bus=scsi1.0,drive=disk0 -drive if=none,id=disk0,media=cdrom,file=/y/A.iso -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi

RE: GUS 4.11 driver in FreeDOS says it can't find the card

I understand this is an old post but I have had the same issues with the 4.11 driver not seeing emulated GUS. However after finding some other info this is a known issue with this version and finding a copy of the 3.11 drivers from the web archive fixed this issue mostly. With the 3.11 drivers, it

Re: Windows XP support

Windows XP does provide support for a few of the controllers from Qemu, perhaps one of the others could work. You likely do not need to recreate the system entirely but find which controller can boot successfully. IE use an acronis/gparted iso or ddrescue to mount two drives on separate contr

Re: Windows XP support

Since you mentioned having an issue finding the floppy driver for virtio; this is he latest link from fedoras repo, later links do not have it: Index of /groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.190-1

Re: Windows XP support; One thing to try instead of reinstalling

The last version from fedora's virtio driver repo with the boot floppy provided is virtio-win-0.1.190-1. You might be able to perform a drive controller swap as opposed to reinstalling. Essentially : On Vmware's end, add new hardware via control panel's add new hardware and specifying you have

Re: Windows XP support

Recently, I have been able to install XP as a guest within qemu using Q35 machine by turning off ACPI in machine type settings and manually selecting "Standard PC" HAL type after pressing F5 during XP setup. ACPI can work with the MPS uni-processor and multi-processor HAL Types if ACPI is needed