Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 64linux host

[Sergey Bychkov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jie Zhang" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: 1.04.2008 11:06
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 
64linux host


> > > I'm trying to run an existing windows xp (32 bit) partition in qemu on a 
> > > x86 64 bit linux host. I always got
> > >
> > > A disk read error occurred
> > > Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
> > >
> > > when qemu starts.
> >
> > Maybe, You should show qemu command line first?
> I use the following command line:
>
> sudo qemu -hda /dev/sda -m 512
>
> I can see the grub, but cannot boot into windows xp because of the disk 
> read error. It's weird that the same command line works on my AMD64 pc, 
> although qemu crashed when I passed "-d in_asm" to it.

Hmm. The only error I could expect in this place is "inaccesible boot 
device" (0x2b, afair)

If your host is x86_64, try:

$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sda -m 512

Sergey Bychkow
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