Talk:QEMU/Windows 98

I found this page extremely useful, but suggest some further additions:

1. An easy way to get small amounts of info in or out is to create floppy disk images with the bfi program, and mount them with -fda image.img. There will be a complaint about inferring that the image is raw, with some writing restrictions, but these don't matter for normal purposes. Winimage also works, but is not free. Some other free programs I tried were not so successful, for reasons I have not worked out.

2. Printouts from old dos programs (at least ones that can print to postscript) can be gotten with the flag  -parallel file:printer0.ps, which sends whatever is sent to LPT1 on into this file.

3. To get substantial amounts of output out, stop the machine, use qemu-img to convert the qcow2 image to vdi, and browse it with 7zip.

Somebody more experienced than I am should probably add this info to the main page, but digging it out of the internet was a chore.

Shutdown crashes
I still get crashes on shutdown after installing the Q239887 update. 2001:A61:3AB1:E01:325A:3AFF:FE7F:8464 (discuss) 13:29, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Turns out the crash on shutdown, as well as a lot of other crashes, are caused by KVM. Any idea why? 2001:A61:3AB1:E01:325A:3AFF:FE7F:8464 (discuss) 17:36, 25 July 2023 (UTC)