Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:52:26AM +0200, Erik Rull wrote:
> is it possible to get back to the "legacy" BIOS instead of the (u)efi based
> BIOS? I have problems booting the guest on a SSD HDD, there it reboots
> infinitely, when running the guest on a rotating HDD, it works. On qemu 1.2.0
> both disks work properly. I didn't find a way to select the BIOS type in QEMU.

You can specify the BIOS blob to use with the -bios <filename> option.

Not sure about the issue you are describing.  SeaBIOS is a BIOS, not
UEFI.

Stefan