[fedora-virt] Windows XP KVM annoyance

[Jes Sorensen]

On 04/01/10 12:06, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 11:05 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> I guess I should poke around in the windows hardware
>>> manager for the details of what changed, but it would
>>> sure be nice if things wouldn't change at all :-).
>> The BIOS changed between F12 and F13 and probably the layout of
>> how the device is presented to the guest. Plus a couple of other
>> things. Windows has the broken idea that it wants to reinstall
>> things whenever it sees the same thing in a new place - try
>> plugging a USB device into different ports .... really not much
>> we can do about it.
>>
> I thought F12 and F13 were supposed to keep the same pci slot layout.

I believe F12 was BOCHS, F13 is Seabios, even if it's the same layout
something almost certainly moved things or flipped a flag of some sort.

Jes