[Qemu-devel] Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[Qemu-devel] Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[Brett Bonfield]

Sorry for contributing nothing but bug reports (or very possibly
reports on ways in which my systme isn't configured properly):

1. It was really useful to learn that "under WindowsXP, as well as
invoking qemu with --enable-audio, it's necessary to go to Control
panel -> Add/Remove Hardware and manually add the SoundBlaster 16."
Unfortunately, when I did this I got a ""This device cannot start
(Code 10)" error. Googling revealed this to be fairly common, and not
just with the SoundBlaster 16 -- any wonder why I very much want to
install Linux? -- but Googling revealed no workarounds that seemed to
apply to this situation.

2. I downloaded and installed the latest Qemu win32 daily (20041124 )
in order to take advantage of the work that's been done with
qemu-img.exe and QEMUMenu.bat. When I start QEMUMenu.bat I am given
the choice to [C]reate Image File, which executes as

qemu0img.exe create -f "raw" "MEPIS.img" "3000M"
Formating 'MEPIS.img' , fmt=raw, size=3072000 kB

Windows Explorer shows the resulting image as 0 kb and when I choose
to boot Qemu using the image, I get

Starting C:\Program Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img ...

qemu.exe -L "Program Files\Qemu\bios\" -m 128 -hda "C:\Program
Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img" -enable-audio -localtime
Press any key to continue . . .

and then the command prompt window closes and nothing happens.

Again, I appreciate everyone's patience and responsiveness. For what
it's worth, the document I've been keeping on how to install Linux on
a Windows box, the one I hope to publish on the web at some point,
keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter as you make improvements
to your amazing software.

Thanks,

Brett

Re: [Qemu-devel] Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi Brett,

For the sound issue - I used the Audio feature in QEMU and it works OK
(XP as a guest, Fedora as a host)..

As for the mepis installation, you just created a 3GB partition.
Indeed it's 0 bytes size, but it grows as you install and write more
stuff. You wouldn't want to allocate 3GB directly by just writing 2GB
stuff inside, would you? :)

As for the nothing-happend issue, it seems that you didn't select to
boot from the CD image (or CD Device) as this is the first thing you
want to do after creating a blank virtual hard drive, so you'll need
to add "-boot d" and with the appropriate -cdrom stuff ..

Hope this helps, I'm not using QEMU under Windows..

Thanks,
Hetz


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:00:50 -0500, Brett Bonfield <pacella@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for contributing nothing but bug reports (or very possibly
> reports on ways in which my systme isn't configured properly):
> 
> 1. It was really useful to learn that "under WindowsXP, as well as
> invoking qemu with --enable-audio, it's necessary to go to Control
> panel -> Add/Remove Hardware and manually add the SoundBlaster 16."
> Unfortunately, when I did this I got a ""This device cannot start
> (Code 10)" error. Googling revealed this to be fairly common, and not
> just with the SoundBlaster 16 -- any wonder why I very much want to
> install Linux? -- but Googling revealed no workarounds that seemed to
> apply to this situation.
> 
> 2. I downloaded and installed the latest Qemu win32 daily (20041124 )
> in order to take advantage of the work that's been done with
> qemu-img.exe and QEMUMenu.bat. When I start QEMUMenu.bat I am given
> the choice to [C]reate Image File, which executes as
> 
> qemu0img.exe create -f "raw" "MEPIS.img" "3000M"
> Formating 'MEPIS.img' , fmt=raw, size=3072000 kB
> 
> Windows Explorer shows the resulting image as 0 kb and when I choose
> to boot Qemu using the image, I get
> 
> Starting C:\Program Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img ...
> 
> qemu.exe -L "Program Files\Qemu\bios\" -m 128 -hda "C:\Program
> Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img" -enable-audio -localtime
> Press any key to continue . . .
> 
> and then the command prompt window closes and nothing happens.
> 
> Again, I appreciate everyone's patience and responsiveness. For what
> it's worth, the document I've been keeping on how to install Linux on
> a Windows box, the one I hope to publish on the web at some point,
> keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter as you make improvements
> to your amazing software.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brett
> 
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[Ronald]

Le Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:00:50 -0500, Brett Bonfield a écrit :

> Sorry for contributing nothing but bug reports (or very possibly reports
> on ways in which my systme isn't configured properly):
> 
> 1. It was really useful to learn that "under WindowsXP, as well as
> invoking qemu with --enable-audio, it's necessary to go to Control panel
> -> Add/Remove Hardware and manually add the SoundBlaster 16."
> Unfortunately, when I did this I got a ""This device cannot start (Code
> 10)" error. Googling revealed this to be fairly common, and not just with
> the SoundBlaster 16 -- any wonder why I very much want to install Linux?
> -- but Googling revealed no workarounds that seemed to apply to this
> situation.

Are you saying you add a sb16 driver to you host to make audio works in
guest?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[CR]

Hello,

I also had the problem with a 0kb RAW-Image. And qemu didn't start with
this file under windows as host.
The problem seems to be that images >2GB don't work under Qemu-Windows.
Some time ago I read theres a problem with mingw with files >2GB. Maybe
that's the cause.

Also qcow images don't work under windows (here), even with filesize <2GB.

Try using an raw image <2GB and see if it works. It does here.
Hope it helps.

Carsten

> Sorry for contributing nothing but bug reports (or very possibly
> reports on ways in which my systme isn't configured properly):
>
> 1. It was really useful to learn that "under WindowsXP, as well as
> invoking qemu with --enable-audio, it's necessary to go to Control
> panel -> Add/Remove Hardware and manually add the SoundBlaster 16."
> Unfortunately, when I did this I got a ""This device cannot start
> (Code 10)" error. Googling revealed this to be fairly common, and not
> just with the SoundBlaster 16 -- any wonder why I very much want to
> install Linux? -- but Googling revealed no workarounds that seemed to
> apply to this situation.
>
> 2. I downloaded and installed the latest Qemu win32 daily (20041124 )
> in order to take advantage of the work that's been done with
> qemu-img.exe and QEMUMenu.bat. When I start QEMUMenu.bat I am given
> the choice to [C]reate Image File, which executes as
>
> qemu0img.exe create -f "raw" "MEPIS.img" "3000M"
> Formating 'MEPIS.img' , fmt=raw, size=3072000 kB
>
> Windows Explorer shows the resulting image as 0 kb and when I choose
> to boot Qemu using the image, I get
>
> Starting C:\Program Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img ...
>
> qemu.exe -L "Program Files\Qemu\bios\" -m 128 -hda "C:\Program
> Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img" -enable-audio -localtime
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> and then the command prompt window closes and nothing happens.
>
> Again, I appreciate everyone's patience and responsiveness. For what
> it's worth, the document I've been keeping on how to install Linux on
> a Windows box, the one I hope to publish on the web at some point,
> keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter as you make improvements
> to your amazing software.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
>
>
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