[Qemu-devel] Where did my previous post go?

[jenia.ivlev]

Hello.

I made a post in this group (QEMU). Then I received an email:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Installing Windows with virtio (was: QEMU, increase
graphics memory)



There is no Qemu-devel group in gmane as far as I can see.

How can I find my post and reply to it (to the replies it received ;) )

Thanks
Jenia

[Qemu-devel] QEMU, increase graphics memory

[jenia.ivlev]

I wanted to get more graphics memory on my QEMU Windows client.

I decided to install **Virtio** drivers for QEMU to achieve that purpose.

I create an *imagine_file* like this:


qemu-img create -f raw image_file 4G


Also, I ran the windows-install like this:


qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4G -cdrom "OS.iso" -boot order=c -drive 
file=image_file,if=virtio


But when Windows ran, it didn't find any hard-drive (the *image_file*
basically). It asked for some drivers instead. I think it wanted drivers
to communicate with the hard-drive (*image_file*).

Running the install without Virtio works though:


qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4G -cdrom "OS.iso" -boot order=d -drive 
file=image_file,format=raw


The difference betweeen the two commands is:


order=c vs order=d


and


if=virtio vs format=raw


How do I install windows with Virtio in QEMU?

My original goal is to get 512 MB of graphics memory on Windows (running
as a guest in QEMU). Unfortunately, by default  (no Virtio) I get 8MB of
video memory which is not enough for my purposes


Thanks

P.S. My OS is Arch-Linux

[Qemu-devel] how to allocate more video memory to qemu

[jenia.ivlev]

Hello.

How do I allocate a specific amount of video memory to a qemu machine?

My OS is GNU/Linux Arch. I'm running qemu using i7 and asus hero7. I want to 
run the game
Civilization 5 (windows), but when I run it, it crushes silently. I went to see
how much video memory windows can see. It turns out to be 4M. I want to
allocate maybe 256M or something like that to it. How do I do that?

Thanks for you time and help in advance.

Re: [Qemu-devel] install windows, csm in montherboard turned off

[jenia.ivlev]

Thats exactly it. thanks very much ;)

[Qemu-devel] install windows, csm in montherboard turned off

[jenia.ivlev]

Hello. 

I tried to install windows on a qemu img and got this error:

  Windows boot manager

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might
be the cause. To fix the problem: 
1. Insert windows installation cd and restart you computer 
2. 
...

Status: 0xc017
Ramdisk device creation failed due to insufficient memory.

This is how I did it (and got the error from above):

qemu-img create windows 15G
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom ~/Desktop/Windows\ 7\ SP1\ Ultimate\ \(64\ 
Bit\)/Windows\ 7\ SP1\ Ultimate\ \(64\ Bit\).iso -boot order=d windows

I'm using a UEFI dual boot and in the process of installing my OSs (arch
and windows ) I swtiched off csm. Might that be the problem?


So why am I getting this error? Am I making some error in the way I boot
the windows image? Or maybe it has something to do with me turning off
csm in the motherboard

Thanks in advance.