Re: [Qemu-devel] using scsi megasas causes Windows 8 bluescreen

[Alex Fishman]

Hannes,

megasas-gen2 crashes as well

-Alex

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Hannes Reinecke <address@hidden> wrote:

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On 04/22/2015 12:19 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:49:48AM +0300, Alex Fishman wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Windows 8 on megasas scsi device with
>> master qemu branch. At the end of the installation I
>> consistently get a blue screen and the image doesn't boot
>> after that. I tried to bisect to older qemu versions, the
>> oldest one that made Windows to recognize the disk was
>> origin/stable-2.1. That version also gave me a blue screen.
>>
>> My command line:
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64  -m 1G -device megasas,id=raid0 -device
>> scsi-hd,drive=disk.0,bus=raid0.0 -drive
>> if=none,id=disk.0,file=win8test.img -cdrom
>> ~/Downloads/en-gb_windows_8.1_with_update_x64_dvd_6051481.iso
>> -vnc :1 -boot d
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> CCing the author of the code.
>

Ah, good. So it's not a regression :-)
I'll have to check what's going on there; the windows drivers are
famous for having random assumptions on the driver behaviour...

Can you try with 'megasas-gen2' instead of the original 'megasas'
to see if it makes a difference?

Cheers,

Hannes
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