Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
On 06/21/2010 08:31 AM, Greg Woods was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 07:19 -0700, JD wrote: > >> ages.) >> >>> >>> >> I thought the windows HW wizard automatically detects new hardware >> and proceeds to install the drivers for it. >> > Under the "right" circumstances. > > >> It's like taking your hard drive >> and putting it into a different PC and booting it. >> > I have had success doing this with Linux, but Windows always blue > screens whenever I try this. I have never figured out whether this is > because of all the anti-piracy crap or if it's just a bug. But I > wouldn't count on the new hardware wizard magically fixing everything on > a Windows system if you try to boot the same image with different > hardware (virtual or physical). > > --Greg > Well, for me, as far as REAL hardware is concerned, I have not had problem migrating the HD to different desktops. Only problem I DID have when doing so, is when there was a clone of the disk as a secondary drive, which was my backup in case the boot disk died. Well, windows detected the backup and literally, mangled that backup disk!! So, I hope people reading this will take note: Never boot windows when a mirror image of the boot disk is present and online (i.e: powered on and connected to the bus). The backup disk was always created via linux (dd) about once a week. I am not going to purse this issue re: blue screen under qemu. It was just an experiment. I like VirtualBox and it works! Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
On Monday, 21 June, 2010 @04:30 zulu, JD scribed: > I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via > VirtualBox without any problems. But when > I try to boot it with qemu: > qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std > I get the blue screen of death. > $ rpm -q qemu > qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 Was that stick created from an image of an existing windows install that was not sysprep'd? If so, are you familiar with loading the registry hive from another computer so you can swap the drive letters / serial numbers around? If you're not, that should at least give you a clue what to google. :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 07:19 -0700, JD wrote: > ages.) > > > I thought the windows HW wizard automatically detects new hardware > and proceeds to install the drivers for it. Under the "right" circumstances. > It's like taking your hard drive > and putting it into a different PC and booting it. I have had success doing this with Linux, but Windows always blue screens whenever I try this. I have never figured out whether this is because of all the anti-piracy crap or if it's just a bug. But I wouldn't count on the new hardware wizard magically fixing everything on a Windows system if you try to boot the same image with different hardware (virtual or physical). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
On 06/21/2010 05:30 AM, David Timms was caught red-handed while writing:: > On 21/06/10 14:30, JD wrote: > >> I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via >> VirtualBox without any problems. But when >> I try to boot it with qemu: >> qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std >> I get the blue screen of death. >> $ rpm -q qemu >> qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 >> > I am of course just guessing: > While windows users don't usually get involved in this, ms do install > one of a small number of kernels to suit the "hardware" they are > installed on. > > To test you might like to install a fresh copy using qemu, just to make > sure it can work, and then take a look at any difference in the kernel > used by each install. > > I believe some have solved it by copying the win hardware profile while > running on the original vm, then boot that up, and delete all hardware, > and then shut it down. > > On new host, select the "empty hardware profile"; win might invoke the > new hardware wizard to get it all going. > > (The other one I've come across in going from vmware to qemu/virt host > is no support for split hard disk images.) > I thought the windows HW wizard automatically detects new hardware and proceeds to install the drivers for it. I have seen it do this many times. It's like taking your hard drive and putting it into a different PC and booting it. Windows will come up and try and install new HW drivers if different from the PC on which it was installed. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
On 21/06/10 14:30, JD wrote: >I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via > VirtualBox without any problems. But when > I try to boot it with qemu: > qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std > I get the blue screen of death. > $ rpm -q qemu > qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 I am of course just guessing: While windows users don't usually get involved in this, ms do install one of a small number of kernels to suit the "hardware" they are installed on. To test you might like to install a fresh copy using qemu, just to make sure it can work, and then take a look at any difference in the kernel used by each install. I believe some have solved it by copying the win hardware profile while running on the original vm, then boot that up, and delete all hardware, and then shut it down. On new host, select the "empty hardware profile"; win might invoke the new hardware wizard to get it all going. (The other one I've come across in going from vmware to qemu/virt host is no support for split hard disk images.) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu
I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via VirtualBox without any problems. But when I try to boot it with qemu: qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std I get the blue screen of death. $ rpm -q qemu qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
