[fedora-virt] Windows XP KVM annoyance

[Avi Kivity]

On 04/01/2010 03:06 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 04/01/10 13:19, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 04/01/2010 01:09 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>> I thought F12 and F13 were supposed to keep the same pci slot layout.
>>>
>>> I believe F12 was BOCHS, F13 is Seabios,
>>
>> That's unrelated.
>
> Depends whether we want to move things in Seabios to show up exactly
> like they do in BOCHS or not.

SeaBIOS has no influence on the hardware, only qemu does.  It can't move 
cards in their slots or jumper irqs.

>
>>> even if it's the same layout
>>> something almost certainly moved things or flipped a flag of some sort.
>>
>> Well, what? it's a bug.
>
> The problem is that Windows has the idea that the same device showing up
> somewhere else requires a driver reinstall. If anything here is a bug,
> then it's Windows' behavior on this front.

No, the bug is that something moved around.  It's the host's 
responsibility not to change things.  Qemu/libvirt are supposed to keep 
everything in its original slot across upgrades.  While blaming Windows 
is a common pastime it is not very constructive.

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