Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 98 installer

2011-10-25 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2011, 10:15 +0200 schrieb Avi Kivity: > On 10/24/2011 08:21 PM, Michael Karcher wrote: > > If you know the 8086 architecture by heart, and also know the qemu code, > > you could get the idea that there might be an emulation bug causing the > > premature acceptance of the seco

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 98 installer

2011-10-25 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/24/2011 08:21 PM, Michael Karcher wrote: > If you know the 8086 architecture by heart, and also know the qemu code, > you could get the idea that there might be an emulation bug causing the > premature acceptance of the second interrupt (would it be accepted after > cleaning up the stack fram

[Qemu-devel] Windows 98 installer

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Karcher
Hello developers, there are plenty of reports in the internet that the Windows 98 installer crashes or hangs in qemu. I took the effort to track down what causes these problems, and I think I found out the core reason, which seems to be a bug in the Microsoft DOS Extender DOSX. The Windows 95/Win