Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 27/08/2013 22:26, Erik Rull ha scritto:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> which BIOS is selected by default?

QEMU only ships with SeaBIOS.

> It's more a guess, there must be a
> change between 1.2.0 and 1.6.0 that prevents a simple Windows XP from
> booting completely, if the guest HDD image is placed on a SSD. On a
> rotating HDD (with the same commandline except the path to the image) it
> boots successfully. The only difference is the speed of the disk access.

It could be a real difference, actually.  An unexpectedly fast disk
might screw a sloppy driver.  IIRC you're not the first person reporting
it.  Stefan, do you think using block throttling could fix it (with some
trial and error)?

> I will try an alternative BIOS, maybe this fixes it, if not I will try
> to do some regression tests, first trying 1.4.0.

This could help.

Paolo