[fedora-virt] Windows XP KVM annoyance

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 11:19:45 UTC 2010


On 04/01/2010 01:09 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> 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, 

That's unrelated.

> 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.

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