I had the same problem. I.ve tried with VirtualBox and KVM: Win Xp SP3 hang on the same point (mup.sys when "safe mode")... Both has the same problem I believe the libvirt maybe the cause.
So I use "Raw Access" with VirtualBox that solved my problem.... 00:00:01.385 [/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#0/AttachedDriver/Config/] (level 6) 00:00:01.385 Format <string> = "VMDK" (cb=5) 00:00:01.385 Path <string> = "/home/jtloni/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/xp3.vmdk" (cb=45) hope will help.. -- 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 “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: New 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..." 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.