[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

I agree to #10. Today I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.4-r3 and I still can't
boot Windows XP/2003 without booting the install cd at first.

But now: After I tried to boot the Windows installation I get the same
odd char in the screen as described by #10. Plus, I can install Windows
without problems, but it doesn't boot AFTER the setup, whether I use IDE
or VirtIO as hard disk bus.

Ergo: Booting from install cd, the setup copies the files on the hard
disk, reboot, booting from hard disk, the setup installs Windows,
reboot, and then: it hangs. Seems to be an BIOS issue.

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Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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Status in QEMU: Incomplete
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New
Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the 
image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the 
boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). 
It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i 
don't think it should be an issue.