On Sunday, 22 October 2023 23:06:40 CDT Francois Gouget wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2023, Zeb Figura wrote: [...]
- In order to properly test Win16 we need a contemporaneous test VM, I
think ideally 98. A modern 32-bit Windows machine (of which I think we still have some) will *run* 16-bit code, and may be usable to test *some* functionality, but I do not think the results can be trusted.
The TestBot still has a Windows XP VM. I also have the bbackup for a Windows 2000 VM which I expect could be made operational pretty quickly.
I think those will already be better than nothing, at least.
But I don't think the (post-VMware) TestBot ever had Windows 9x VMs. I did have VMs on my home computer which were submitting WineTest results but those were never part of the TestBot.
Ah, interesting. I know that we used to run tests on 9x (mostly because there's a lot of 'broken on 9x' kind of comments in the code) but I did not realize that it was never part of the (current) TestBot setup.
I don't think I've ever tried to run win9x with QEmu and I doubt it's tested much these days. But if QEmu still supports it [1], we find suitable ISOs and licenses, then adding VMs for them should be possible [2].
I have a QEmu VM here that works, and I was able to get a SAMBA shared folder as well. (Does the TestBot use SAMBA, or something else?)
One issue is that we'll get whatever is on the CD and not any of the post-release fixes because Windows Update will not work (Microsoft's servers don't support the very old Windows versions).
Huh, I wasn't aware that Microsoft did OTA updates that early. Do we have an idea of how much those updates matter? Is there any other way to retrieve them?