On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:16:11PM -0000, Bug Watch Updater wrote: > ** Changed in: debian > Status: Unknown => New > > -- > Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- > devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. > > 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..." > Remove "boot=on". If this helps, then you most probably run with tcg instead of kvm.
> 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. > > -- Gleb.