Re: [Qemu-discuss] Win 10 VM looping in prepare auto repair since sys upgrade

[Alexander Petrenz]

Hi,

well as I said, the problem only occurs when I boot the partition with the
win 10 installation via the vm. I can boot it natively without any
problems. I lost the activation due to the hardware change, however.

BR

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, 07:49 Alex John, <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 11:10:19AM +0200, Alexander Petrenz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I used to have an intel core i7 system and I have a Win10 guest with a
> pci
> > passthroughed graphics card. This UEFI based setup was running fine and
> > stable.
> > Recently I upgraded to an amd ryzen system. I adjusted device ID of the
> > graphics card and I'm no longer using the pci-stub driver, but vfio-pci
> > directly. According to the lspci output this is working fine (vfio driver
> > bound to the graphics card).
>
> iirc Windows does not like the processor (or any hardware) to be changed
> suddenly, so you're better off reinstalling the VM.
>
> Alex
>
> > However the VM doesn't boot anymore. It's just looping around a screen
> > telling me that automatic repair is prepared.
> > When booted natively the win10 works still flawlessly. Is there anything
> I
> > need to adjust at the config because of the change of the pc hardware?
> > I already booted into the windows setup and tried to fix the boot record
> > via bcdedit, but that didn't change anything.
> > Does anybody have an idea what else I could try?
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Alex
>
>