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

[tekditt]

I have to correct myself.

Booting from Windows XP/2003 after the first reboot of the Windows setup
is still impossible (without booting from the install CD at first).

I tried both the command line used by libvirt and the following one:

> qemu-kvm -hda thisfile -cdrom thatfile -boot c

Also, I tested these command lines on qemu-kvm-0.12.4, qemu-
kvm-0.12.4-r3 and qemu.git with SeaBIOS 0.5.1, 0.6.0 and seabios.git
respectively. Windows always hangs at boot time. (But Windows Server
2008 R2 boots up. I assume Windows 7 and Vista will do fine as well.)

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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 Debian GNU/Linux: New
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.