[Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

It seems that few people had succsess stories while installing XP while 
other had various crashes (in guest OS)...

To those who had those problems, could you please try to describe in 
much details the problems?

What I would like to know:

* Which Windows XP version is it (MSDN, XP Volume CD, OEM, Home, Pro, etc)
* If you managed to install XP, have you managed to run the wordpad 
program? (the "word processor" which is included in XP).
* Where exactly did the crash happend
* Did you create users? if so, how many?

I understood that using the -pci or -pci -cirrusvga parameters makes any 
  XP installation crashes. Does it happend to you if you install XP from 
scratch?

Thanks,
Hetz

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It seems that few people had succsess stories while installing XP while 
> other had various crashes (in guest OS)...

I succesfully installed Windows XP Pro PL (without SP1 I think but I must 
check that to be sure) from my university (free for students for edu 
uses) before -pci and -cirrusvga options were introduced. It was some CVS 
version after 0.5.5 I think. Win was working stable and I had run some 
programs on it.

After -pci and -cirrusvga options have been introduced I tried second time 
(fresh install). And QEMU got SIGSEGV in the later part of installation 
(after two reebots and after entering settings if I remember). I do not 
know where excacly the crash happened because I was far away from 
computer. But it was not some OOM killer or something like that. And my 
hardware is rock stable. It was probably 2.6.6-mm4 kernel without any 
closed source modules (stable for me). I posted all info I have about this 
try to the list.

I do not know how to debug such problems (I never used gdb and currently 
have not time to read the whole manual - if some good manual exists). So I 
can try again I somebody will tell me what should I type in order to get 
some usefull stack trace.


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows XP status

[Christopher Nehren]

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 16:27:13 EDT, Hetz Ben Hamo scribbled these
curious markings:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that few people had succsess stories while installing XP while 
> other had various crashes (in guest OS)...
> 
> To those who had those problems, could you please try to describe in 
> much details the problems?

It just segfaults, leaving a hefty 100-200 MB core file in its wake.
Running said core through gdb invariably gives a 'cannot access memory
at 0x$foo' error. Since I don't know gdb too well, and since the only
manual is in GNU info format, which I abhor (replacing man pages? What
was RMS smoking / sniffing / injecting? Er, never mind. I don't want to
know), I doubt that I'll be able to provide any more information than
that.

> What I would like to know:
> 
> * Which Windows XP version is it (MSDN, XP Volume CD, OEM, Home, Pro, etc)

XP Pro.

> * If you managed to install XP, have you managed to run the wordpad 
> program? (the "word processor" which is included in XP).

Not yet.

> * Where exactly did the crash happend

Various places, mostly after the "Installing drivers" stage.

> * Did you create users? if so, how many?

Never got the chance to do so.

> I understood that using the -pci or -pci -cirrusvga parameters makes any 
>  XP installation crashes. Does it happend to you if you install XP from 
> scratch?

Again, I haven't been able to successfully install with any options in
order to make a comparison.

-- 
I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".  -- Ken Thompson
-
Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.

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