On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Vincent Autefage <899...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > $ qemu-img create -f raw root.img 100GB > $ mkntfs -F root.img > $ qemu -name W -sdl -m 2048 -enable-kvm -localtime -k fr -hda root.img > -cdrom windows7.iso -boot d -net nic,macaddr=a0:00:00:00:00:01 -net > user,vlan=0
QEMU does recognize the raw image. You can check this by running 'info block' at the QEMU monitor (Ctrl-Alt-2) and you'll see ide-hd0 is the raw image file you specified. Press Ctrl-Alt-1 to get back to the VM display. The problem is that the Windows installer does not like the disk image you have prepared. A normal harddisk has a master boot record but you created a raw image without a master boot record. The Windows installer is being picky/careful and not displaying this non-standard disk you created. Skip the mkntfs step and the installer works fine. There's no need to create the file system because the installer will do it for you. Stefan
