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

[tekditt]

Do you mean, I should try to install and boot Win2k3 without libvirt?

If I install Windows through libvirt and boot it with a simple command line like
> qemu-kvm -hda /someimage.img -enable-kvm
it doesn't boot.

It's in fact this bug, just like Cole meant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

Also interesting, if I use a raw image instead of a vdi image, the
workaround (booting the install cd and let it hand over to the installed
windows) doesn't work anymore.

Now I'll set up another machine with gentoo and try all combinations of
image file types, Windozes (< NT 6.0) and qemu options and I'll report
the results.

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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 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.