Re: Fwd: Booting physically installed Windows while in Arch (AHCI support in OVMF?)
06.05.2013 00:42, Evert Heylen wrote: Please, any help? I think the easiest way is to convert your existing system from UEFI back to regular bios + MBR. For that, you need to disable UEFI boot in bios and convert GPT to MBR on the HDD. This is because, as you figured, ahci support in OVMF isn't exactly working, and because generally, UEFI emulation and UEFI support as whole is a bit too young still. /mjt I'm currently in such a state I won't be able to sleep well before I make some progress on this. I've already described my situation quite precisly, if one needs even more information, just ask. I've now also tried with a separate img containing DUET, so I can use the default seabios to boot DUET, which can boot Windows in UEFI mode. However, DUET just doesn't see my disk at all, be it in IDE or AHCI mode. If I boot the same img *physically* (from a usb), I can enter DUET and I can see my physical disk (which is running in AHCI mode). So I guess this is an issue with KVM/QEMU. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Evert Heylen everthey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, My situation is the following: My PC (x64) has an UEFI capable motherboard (ASRock Z77). On my hard drive (which is GPT formatted ofc), I have Windows 7 installed on /dev/sda3 and Arch Linux on /dev/sda2. I can boot both OS'es. However, I would like to boot Windows while in Arch, using KVM. I'm using the OVMF images. I tried it right away with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -hda /dev/sda -L /path/to/ovmf/ It doesn't work. When booting in safe mode in windows, I can see that windows fails when trying to load CLASSPNP.sys . After some googling I found out that it might be because qemu 'mounts' the drive in IDE mode, while windows expects it to be in AHCI mode (because it was installed in AHCI mode). Then, after some more googling, I tried this command, which should (correct me if I'm wrong) mount the drive in AHCI mode. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -L /path/to/ovmf -device ahci,id=ahci0 -drive if=none,file=/dev/sda,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 -device driver=ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 However, with this command OVMF doesn't seem to recognise any drive at all, the 'Boot from file' screen is empty. So, I would like to know if OVMF supports AHCI, and if it doesn't, do you have any other ideas? I know it's generally not a good idea to boot a physically installed OS in a vm, but I want to try it anyway. Thanks, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Fwd: Booting physically installed Windows while in Arch (AHCI support in OVMF?)
Please, any help? I'm currently in such a state I won't be able to sleep well before I make some progress on this. I've already described my situation quite precisly, if one needs even more information, just ask. I've now also tried with a separate img containing DUET, so I can use the default seabios to boot DUET, which can boot Windows in UEFI mode. However, DUET just doesn't see my disk at all, be it in IDE or AHCI mode. If I boot the same img *physically* (from a usb), I can enter DUET and I can see my physical disk (which is running in AHCI mode). So I guess this is an issue with KVM/QEMU. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Evert Heylen everthey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, My situation is the following: My PC (x64) has an UEFI capable motherboard (ASRock Z77). On my hard drive (which is GPT formatted ofc), I have Windows 7 installed on /dev/sda3 and Arch Linux on /dev/sda2. I can boot both OS'es. However, I would like to boot Windows while in Arch, using KVM. I'm using the OVMF images. I tried it right away with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -hda /dev/sda -L /path/to/ovmf/ It doesn't work. When booting in safe mode in windows, I can see that windows fails when trying to load CLASSPNP.sys . After some googling I found out that it might be because qemu 'mounts' the drive in IDE mode, while windows expects it to be in AHCI mode (because it was installed in AHCI mode). Then, after some more googling, I tried this command, which should (correct me if I'm wrong) mount the drive in AHCI mode. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -L /path/to/ovmf -device ahci,id=ahci0 -drive if=none,file=/dev/sda,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 -device driver=ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 However, with this command OVMF doesn't seem to recognise any drive at all, the 'Boot from file' screen is empty. So, I would like to know if OVMF supports AHCI, and if it doesn't, do you have any other ideas? I know it's generally not a good idea to boot a physically installed OS in a vm, but I want to try it anyway. Thanks, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Booting physically installed Windows while in Arch (AHCI support in OVMF?)
Bump. I'm currently in such a state I won't be able to sleep well before I make some progress on this. I've already described my situation quite precisly, if one needs even more information, just ask. I've now also tried with a separate img containing DUET, so I can use the default seabios to boot DUET, which can boot Windows in UEFI mode. However, DUET just doesn't see my disk at all, be it in IDE or AHCI mode. If I boot the same img *physically* (from a usb), I can enter DUET and I can see my physical disk (which is running in AHCI mode). So I guess this is an issue with KVM/QEMU. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Evert Heylen everthey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, My situation is the following: My PC (x64) has an UEFI capable motherboard (ASRock Z77). On my hard drive (which is GPT formatted ofc), I have Windows 7 installed on /dev/sda3 and Arch Linux on /dev/sda2. I can boot both OS'es. However, I would like to boot Windows while in Arch, using KVM. I'm using the OVMF images. I tried it right away with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -hda /dev/sda -L /path/to/ovmf/ It doesn't work. When booting in safe mode in windows, I can see that windows fails when trying to load CLASSPNP.sys . After some googling I found out that it might be because qemu 'mounts' the drive in IDE mode, while windows expects it to be in AHCI mode (because it was installed in AHCI mode). Then, after some more googling, I tried this command, which should (correct me if I'm wrong) mount the drive in AHCI mode. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -L /path/to/ovmf -device ahci,id=ahci0 -drive if=none,file=/dev/sda,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 -device driver=ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 However, with this command OVMF doesn't seem to recognise any drive at all, the 'Boot from file' screen is empty. So, I would like to know if OVMF supports AHCI, and if it doesn't, do you have any other ideas? I know it's generally not a good idea to boot a physically installed OS in a vm, but I want to try it anyway. Thanks, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Booting physically installed Windows while in Arch (AHCI support in OVMF?)
Hi all, My situation is the following: My PC (x64) has an UEFI capable motherboard (ASRock Z77). On my hard drive (which is GPT formatted ofc), I have Windows 7 installed on /dev/sda3 and Arch Linux on /dev/sda2. I can boot both OS'es. However, I would like to boot Windows while in Arch, using KVM. I'm using the OVMF images. I tried it right away with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -hda /dev/sda -L /path/to/ovmf/ It doesn't work. When booting in safe mode in windows, I can see that windows fails when trying to load CLASSPNP.sys . After some googling I found out that it might be because qemu 'mounts' the drive in IDE mode, while windows expects it to be in AHCI mode (because it was installed in AHCI mode). Then, after some more googling, I tried this command, which should (correct me if I'm wrong) mount the drive in AHCI mode. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4096 -L /path/to/ovmf -device ahci,id=ahci0 -drive if=none,file=/dev/sda,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 -device driver=ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 However, with this command OVMF doesn't seem to recognise any drive at all, the 'Boot from file' screen is empty. So, I would like to know if OVMF supports AHCI, and if it doesn't, do you have any other ideas? I know it's generally not a good idea to boot a physically installed OS in a vm, but I want to try it anyway. Thanks, Evert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
