Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:16:11PM -0000, Bug Watch Updater wrote:
> ** Changed in: debian
>        Status: Unknown => New
> 
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> Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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> Status in QEMU: Incomplete
> Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New
> Status in Fedora: Unknown
> 
> Bug description:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
> If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.
> 
> I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> > qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
> it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."
> 
Remove "boot=on". If this helps, then you most probably run with tcg
instead of kvm.

> I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.
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			Gleb.