Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It seems that few people had succsess stories while installing XP while 
> other had various crashes (in guest OS)...

I succesfully installed Windows XP Pro PL (without SP1 I think but I must 
check that to be sure) from my university (free for students for edu 
uses) before -pci and -cirrusvga options were introduced. It was some CVS 
version after 0.5.5 I think. Win was working stable and I had run some 
programs on it.

After -pci and -cirrusvga options have been introduced I tried second time 
(fresh install). And QEMU got SIGSEGV in the later part of installation 
(after two reebots and after entering settings if I remember). I do not 
know where excacly the crash happened because I was far away from 
computer. But it was not some OOM killer or something like that. And my 
hardware is rock stable. It was probably 2.6.6-mm4 kernel without any 
closed source modules (stable for me). I posted all info I have about this 
try to the list.

I do not know how to debug such problems (I never used gdb and currently 
have not time to read the whole manual - if some good manual exists). So I 
can try again I somebody will tell me what should I type in order to get 
some usefull stack trace.


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski