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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1629282] Re: QEMU (still) hangs on Windows 7 install
From: |
Laszlo Ersek \(Red Hat\) |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1629282] Re: QEMU (still) hangs on Windows 7 install |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:59:56 -0000 |
I'll assume "OVMF_15214.fd" is from <http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/>.
It's an ancient build of OVMF (older than two and half years). The
binary packaged in that ZIP file isn't even a split one, it's a unified
binary that is unsuitable for the command line that you've given above.
Please either grab the most recent OVMF build from your distribution, or
a bleeding edge build from <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/>
(recommended). Then create a copy of the varstore template, to be used
as the VM's own private variable store. Also, fix the "-display std"
command line option, as in "-vga std". It will just work then.
Below I'll specify the commands that I just re-tested. Note that I'm
also renaming the QEMU_BIOS and QEMU_BIOS_TMP variables (whose names are
quite inappropriate) to FIRMWARE_BINARY and VARIABLE_STORE.
# this binary corresponds to upstream git cc9a366d3b16,
# dated "Thu Sep 29 00:34:20 2016 +0100"
QEMU_BINARY=/opt/qemu-installed/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
# these files are from package
# "edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160929.b2144.g84bc72f.noarch", installed
# from kraxel.org
FIRMWARE_BINARY=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd
VARIABLE_STORE_TEMPLATE=/usr/share/edk2.git/ovmf-x64/OVMF_VARS-pure-efi.fd
VARIABLE_STORE=/tmp/guest1-vars.fd
# Windows 7 installer disk
QEMU_WINDOWS_7_CD=en_windows_7_enterprise_n_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677704.iso
# other settings
QEMU_MEMORY=2048
# create empty variable store from pristine template if the varstore doesn't
# exist yet, or has been lost for some reason
if ! [ -e "$VARIABLE_STORE" ]; then
cp -v -- "$VARIABLE_STORE_TEMPLATE" "$VARIABLE_STORE"
fi
$QEMU_BINARY \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file="$FIRMWARE_BINARY" \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file="$VARIABLE_STORE" \
-enable-kvm \
-m $QEMU_MEMORY \
-vga std \
-cpu host,kvm=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4 \
-cdrom $QEMU_WINDOWS_7_CD
** Changed in: qemu
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
QEMU (still) hangs on Windows 7 install
Status in QEMU:
Invalid
Bug description:
I'm trying to install Windows 7 as guest, but the machine still hangs
(more precisely, the windows icon keeps flashing, but never goes past
this stage).
I think this is a different bug from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1581936.
Specifically, its happens when the OVMF BIOS is used, and I can't find
any workaround (in the above bug, by changing the display, the
installation doesn't hang).
The most minimal commandline that reproduces the issue is (generic
format):
$QEMU_BINARY \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=$QEMU_BIOS \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=$QEMU_BIOS_TMP \
-enable-kvm \
-m $QEMU_MEMORY \
-display std \
-cpu host,kvm=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4 \
-cdrom $QEMU_WINDOWS_7_CD \
;
I'm using `OVMF_15214.fd` as BIOS.
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