Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

[risc@volumehost.com]

on x86, qemu by default does not emulate a scsi device.

if you look at my last set of postings, you will see a patch set for adding scsi controllers on demand.

its got some code formatting issues, so i understand why it hasnt been merged as of yet. i intend to publish a new version in the next couple of days.

Julia Longtin <risc@volumehost.com>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:33:31PM +0200, GUERRAZ Francois wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Micro$oft's 64bits OSes are known to be problematic w/ kvm.
> 
> I guess that the main problem w/ Qemu is that Microsoft Virtual Server
> can emulate a SCSI controller and Qemu cannot... I havent checked but I
> bet they installed their VM's with just SCSI drivers...
> Try to install IDE drivers from VM Ware and then to boot from QEMU.
> Also, try to disable ACPI (update the "computer" driver to "Standard PC"
> if available)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> François.
> 
> Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 23:35 +0930, Dan Shearer a écrit :
> > I have been playing around with the demonstration Windows images
> > downloadable from Microsoft just to see how hard it would be to use the
> > OSs they provide. The images are designed for Microsoft Virtual Server,
> > but can be successfully converted to qcow2 and vhdx using qemu-img. QEMU
> > won't boot the images (not a difficult problem, I think) but VMware can.
> > I'll try other free virtualisation systems at some point.
> > 
> > See http://shearer.org/Microsoft_Demo_VMs for my notes so far.
> > 
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