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 to the general

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 supported for

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 question. The old

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. Is qemu supported only

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 with a

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 Windows

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=diskgeometry

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_GEOMETRY

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 MS

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 supported

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 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 hope so,

[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