[Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2015-06-17 Thread MegaBrutal
I experience this even today with Ubuntu Vivid. Anyone has a workaround (which not involves building QEMU/KVM from source)? My current qemu package version is 1:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu9.2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2012-11-15 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Jamin W. Collins (jcoll...@asgardsrealm.net): You don't need a license to reproduce this. You only need to attempt to boot from installation media. I'll happily try upstream qemu, can't say that I've done it before. Any pointers? I usually do the following: git clone

[Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2012-11-15 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Followed the steps provided and the current upstream source does not suffer from this issue. Last commit in current upstream source: commit 6801038bc52d61f81ac8a25fbe392f1bad982887. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2012-11-14 Thread Serge Hallyn
Thanks for reporting this bug. I don't currently have a windows license available to reproduce. If you know how to build upstream qemu, are you able to reproduce this with that as well? ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2012-11-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
You don't need a license to reproduce this. You only need to attempt to boot from installation media. I'll happily try upstream qemu, can't say that I've done it before. Any pointers? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1074460] Re: kvm: windows xp installation hangs after Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration

2012-11-03 Thread Jamin W. Collins
I did some further digging on this and it appears that it only happens when the virtual machine definition includes a floppy device, either via -drive or -fda. Removal of the floppy device results in being able to successfully boot and install Windows XP. However, this does seem to prevent one