RE: [Xen-devel] HVM and WIndows NT

["Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>]

In Xen 3.3.1, the full realmode emulation (rather than vmxassist) is used, so 
Alexandre's issue should have nothing to do with realmode itself.

BTW, recent Intel's CPU can also support true Real Mode in virtual machine mode 
and the feature has been supported by xen-unstable for several months.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mats petersson
Sent: 2009?8?6? 18:34
To: Alexandre CABROL PERALES
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] HVM and WIndows NT

A while (> 2 years ago), I'm sure I ran up Windows NT on Xen 3.0 or
3.1. But that was on an AMD processor, and it's highly likely that the
BIOS / NT interaction  is broken in the Intel only "simulation of
real-mode via vritual 8086 mode". The AMD processors support true Real
Mode in Virtual machine mode.

Of course, this may all have changed a huge amount, so do not rely on
my information.

--
Mats

2009/8/6 Alexandre CABROL PERALES <alexandre.cabrol@xxxxxxxx>:
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> Hi everybody,
> i'm currently trying to run Windows NT 4.0 on Xen.
>
> I can install it with Xen 3.3 and CPUID below:
> # Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
>
> cpuid = [
> '0x00000000:eax=0x00000002,ebx=0x756e6547,ecx=0x6c65746e,edx=0x49656e69',
>
> '0x00000001:eax=0x00000f12,ebx=0x00010808,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x3febfbff',
>
> '0x00000002:eax=0x665b5001,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x007a7040',
>
> '0x80000000:eax=0x80000004,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x00000000',
>
> '0x80000001:eax=0x00000000,ebx=0x00000000,ecx=0x00000000,edx=0x00000000',
>
> '0x80000002:eax=0x20202020,ebx=0x20202020,ecx=0x20202020,edx=0x6e492020',
>
> '0x80000003:eax=0x286c6574,ebx=0x50202952,ecx=0x69746e65,edx=0x52286d75',
>
> '0x80000004:eax=0x20342029,ebx=0x20555043,ecx=0x30352e31,edx=0x007a4847',
>          ]
>
>
>
> But i have an issue with Video Card emulation of Xen 3.3.1 :
> when i use Cirrus Logic emulation,
> during display test the system crash with yellow or green screen.
>
> It seems that Cirrus emulation didn't support the resizing.
>
> If i try stdvga mode the videocard is not recognised by Windows NT.
>
> I tried on KVM and it works fine with cirrus logic emulation.
>
>
>
> Is there any way to update qemu-dm with current qemu version ?
>
>
> regards,
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