Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-09 Thread Andrew Olney
qemu-img convert -O raw xp.qcow2 xp.img using the same command on the raw image gives a blue screen on startup (same error as before) So converting from raw to qcow2 fixes the error, and converting back to raw reintroduces the error I'm not set up to use LVM volumes Avi Kivity wrote: On

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-08 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/04/2009 07:06 PM, Andrew Olney wrote: Host is ext3 Linux monkamu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.0 (qemu-kvm-0.11.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard If you convert a qcow image back to raw on ext3,

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-04 Thread Andrew Olney
Host is ext3 Linux monkamu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux QEMU PC emulator version 0.11.0 (qemu-kvm-0.11.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/04/2009 05:45 AM, Andrew Olney wrote: OK, if I convert the raw image

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-03 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/04/2009 05:45 AM, Andrew Olney wrote: OK, if I convert the raw image to qcow2, it boots fine. Why should a raw image give a blue screen? Sounds like a serious bug. What is the host filesystem? Did you upgrade the host kernel or qemu? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Olney
OK, if I convert the raw image to qcow2, it boots fine. Why should a raw image give a blue screen? Avi Kivity wrote: On 10/28/2009 05:27 PM, Andrew Olney wrote: Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". The

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Olney
Thanks for the suggestion. I've successfully installed on a new qcow2 image. Strangely all of my xp raw images no longer work. That makes me think that this is more than just a corrupt image. I've been using kvm for several years with raw images, so I don't think the BIOS could be a factor ei

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-29 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 10/28/09 16:27, Andrew Olney wrote: Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". The image was created with qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G And the setup command is kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.img -b

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-28 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On 10/28/2009 5:27 PM, Andrew Olney wrote: Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". The image was created with qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G And the setup command is kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.i

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-28 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/28/2009 05:27 PM, Andrew Olney wrote: Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". The image was created with qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G And the setup command is kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-28 Thread Andrew Olney
Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". The image was created with qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G And the setup command is kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.img -boot d -m 512 -no-acpi -usb -usbdevice

Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 10/26/2009 11:09 PM, Andrew Olney wrote: Hangs on boot, xp guest: STOP: c221 Unknown Hard Error \SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll Will boot into safe mode, but _not_ into safe mode with networking. According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314474, this file is corrupted. If you hav

xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot

2009-10-26 Thread Andrew Olney
Hangs on boot, xp guest: STOP: c221 Unknown Hard Error \SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll Will boot into safe mode, but _not_ into safe mode with networking. Boots into non-MS VMs fine. * what cpu model (examples: Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Opteron 2210). See /proc/cpuinfo i