I've seen windows XP hanging on reboot/shutdown like this so many countless times I'd not bother with this at all. At least, does clean install of winXP shows the same behavour?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498035 Title: qemu hangs on shutdown or reboot (XP guest) Status in QEMU: Triaged Bug description: When I shut down or reboot my Windows XP guest, about half the time, it hangs at the point where it says "Windows is shutting down...". At that point qemu is using 100% of one host CPU, about 85% user, 15% system. (Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz) This is the command line I use to start qemu: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -k en-us -m 2048 -smp 2 -vnc :3100 -usbdevice tablet -boot c -enable-kvm &
