On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 01:06:34PM +0100, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> Am 10.02.24 um 21:17 schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> > So.. the difference is vgabios only, not seabios (vgabios-stdvga in this
> > case).
> >
> > And I can't get it to work with debugging vgabios, it always fails even
> > with DEBUG_LEVEL=2
> > (and level-1 logging isn't useful).
> >
> > I was able to capture logs just for the non-working version, so there's
> > nothing to
> > compare it against. So I tried a different machine type in qemu, the
> > one which
> > works, which uses SMBIOS 3.0 (q35-8.2).
> >
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Windows apparently doesn't read SMBIOS 3.0 tables:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2008#note_1712210029
>
> Not sure if this is relevant for your issue and it only "works" because
> of that with newer machine models. But it seems worth mentioning.
Note that there is an option to explicitly set the smbios version:
qemu -machine q35,smbios-entry-point-type={32,64}
That will override the machine type default.
take care,
Gerd
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