I looked at the various FAQs and googled all around for my answer and came up
dry. If this is a newbie question, please point me to the right resource and
I’ll go educate myself.
That said, I installed Win10 under qemu on a linux host over a year ago. It has
run beautifully.
Recently I transferred the image to my OSX laptop so I could run a windows
program there. The boot script I had under linux doesn’t work. I knew I’d have
to change the networking configuration a little bit, but I’m running into a
more fundamental problem. Windows won’t boot.
On bootup, Win10 goes into an endless loop of “repairing” the installation
which never succeeds.
I assume this is because I needed to change the CPU definition for qemu and now
Windows is missing some drivers in order to boot.
I am going to inline my ORIGINAL script (that booted fine on linux) and my
REVISED script which goes into an infinite repair loop on OSX. I am hopeful
someone can suggest an edit to get it working. Alternately, if I need to
reinstall windows please suggest the right emulated hardware setup that will
make it easiest to copy the image back and forth between linux and OSX.
ORIGINAL boot script
#!/bin/bash
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 8G -cpu host \
-machine pc-q35-2.4 \
-smp cores=2 \
-usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet \
-smbios type=2 \
-soundhw all \
-hda win10.img \
-netdev
bridge,id=net0,br=br0,"helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper" -device
e1000-82545em,netdev=net0,mac=00:0c:29:0f:1d:aa \
-device
qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vgamem_mb=16 \
-uuid 564defd0-b124-a042-570f-561d0axxxxx
REVISED script
#!/bin/bash
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8G \
-no-kvm \
-smp cores=2 \
-usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-tablet \
-smbios type=2 \
-soundhw all \
-hda win10.img \
-netdev user,id=n0 -device rtl8139,netdev=n0,mac=00:0c:29:0f:1d:aa \
-uuid 564defd0-b124-a042-570f-561d0xxxxxx
Thank you for your help!
