<!-- This is the upstream QEMU issue tracker. If you are able to, it will greatly facilitate bug triage if you attempt to reproduce the problem with the latest qemu.git master built from source. See https://www.qemu.org/download/#source for instructions on how to do this. QEMU generally supports the last two releases advertised on https://www.qemu.org/. Problems with distro-packaged versions of QEMU older than this should be reported to the distribution instead. See https://www.qemu.org/contribute/report-a-bug/ for additional guidance. If this is a security issue, please consult https://www.qemu.org/contribute/security-process/ --> ## Host environment - Operating system: Windows 11 (24H2) - Architecture: x64 - QEMU flavor: qemu-system-x86_64 - QEMU version: 9.2.50 - QEMU command line: <!-- Give the smallest, complete command line that exhibits the problem. If you are using libvirt, virsh, or vmm, you can likely find the QEMU command line arguments in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.log. --> ``` qemu-system-x86_64w -M pc,acpi=off -m 256 -net user -net nic,model=pcnet -device ac97 -device VGA,vgamem_mb=128 -hda Win98.vhd -rtc base=localtime -usb -cpu pentium3 ``` ## Emulated/Virtualized environment - Operating system: Windows 95 / 98 - Architecture: x86 ## Description of problem <!-- Describe the problem, including any error/crash messages seen. --> If install Windows 95 / 98 on that configuration, Windows 95 / 98 crashed on "While initializing device NDIS: Windows protection error." message, or QEMU crashed. With this command line Windows 95 / 98 can worked on previous QEMU 7.<br>And please don't allow IME input on CJK (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) host system (that relied IME to input some text). Such input process is done by the IME in CJK operating system guest. ## Steps to reproduce 1. 2. 3. ## Additional information <!-- Attach logs, stack traces, screenshots, etc. Compress the files if necessary. If using libvirt, libvirt logs and XML domain information may be relevant. --> <!-- The line below ensures that proper tags are added to the issue. Please do not remove it. -->