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As I've seen some bug reports on this issue and no solution I thought I'd post mine:

Running Vista in qemu/kvm is mostly no problem. Except for user mode networking. Apparently Vista decides that it doesn't like the qemu DHCP server and ignores the IP it is assigned. Of course user net doesn't work then.

The simple solution is to give Vista a fixed IP, but which IP should you actually give it? There's only one that makes everything work right, and that is 10.0.2.15. Found this out by looking through the qemu code. If you don't use this IP then -redir won't work. And that was a major issue for me.

Hope it helps somebody.

Perhaps you remember such a discussion on core-devel quite some time ago. It resulted in a section on Techbase about the topic, with all the explanations why to do it that way. Too bad that the people who create the Microsoft Visual Studio stdlib headers haven't read it. This is too stupid...

I have a project at university where all the filenames start with a long prefix - and that prefix is the same for all the files. Tedious for opening files, even with auto-completion. So I 'ln -s'ed all the files to a filename without the prefix. This broke my build on Windows (the files are made available to a Windows running in VirtualBox, which is why I can use ln -s) as there now was a Math.h file in the directory. And guess what the MSVC compiler did... The <cmath> include has a

So if you write a library and don't know the difference between #include <...> and #include "..." look at that Techbase page again, so that your library won't waste somebodies time like Microsoft just did to me.

Finally! I finished the first Diploma exam in Experimental Physics. It took me a lot longer than planned because I got distracted so much with other things. Mostly KDE/Phonon...

In order to get the exam done I tried to not work on KDE the last month (and I was partially successful ).

Now I'm back to the many things I have to do and that I ignored while learning for the exam. (The list is too long )

I'm preparing for an oral exam in experimental physics together with two friends from university. They'll do the exam on Oct. 17th. I still have to make an appointment, but because of aKademy I'm aiming for the end of October. We'll meet on every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from now on - the time in between we'll learn for ourselves.

Starting with solid state physics (till Aug. 25th), then atom physics (till Sep. 8th) and nuclear physics (till Sep. 22nd) we'll cover the three big topics for the exam. While I'm at aKademy, end of September, my friends will look into some of the experiments we did and when I come back we'll do repetitions and "play" exam situations.

Goodbye to the happy times of (almost) constant KDE hacking - waiting for better days again.