FS#40101 - [qemu] Windows 3.11 won't boot in qemu 2

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dennis (dennis123123) - Saturday, 26 April 2014, 14:59 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 19 June 2014, 18:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

It hangs at the point in config.sys of the guest where the standard display driver is set
DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)

Identical virtual disk image works fine in 1.7.1
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 18:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dennis (dennis123123) - Saturday, 26 April 2014, 15:03 GMT
Upstream patch available since February...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-02/msg00768.html

Comment by Dennis (dennis123123) - Thursday, 01 May 2014, 19:04 GMT
...deleted earlier comment...

EDIT: I can confirm the upstream patches for this work!
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 15:52 GMT
Please confirm working state with latest seabios 1.7.5-2.
Comment by Dennis (dennis123123) - Thursday, 19 June 2014, 18:39 GMT
Confirmed - now that vgabios files are up-to-date, it works fine with the Arch Linux packaged qemu

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