Re: Cannot install Win XP on AMD X2 with kvm-51

[Izik Eidus <izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Werner Opriel wrote:
> Am Samstag, 10. November 2007 15:05 schrieb Izik Eidus:
>   
>> ok, please try out -no-kvm-irqchip, and if this isnt helping
>> you might checkout kvm-36 and report what happen there
>> (in this days we are doing some serioes work to improved greatly the amd
>> support)
>>     
>
> With kvm-36 and pressing F7 to use Standard PC HAL:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -hda xp.img  -cdrom /iso/xp.iso -boot 
> d -m 512
>
> the windows guest always fails to reboot, it then hangs without any errors or 
> messages, but doing a manually reboot works well and finally the installation 
> ended successfully.
>
> Starting the guest in bridged mode with:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 xp.img -usb -usbdevice tablet -monitor stdio -m 512 \
> -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup
>
> seems to work fast and stable so far. 
> I tried to install a program, create users and start some tasks ... and i 
> haven't seen any errors yet, except for the reboot issue.
>   
ok, good to hear that at least once we had that work,
as i said we hope to solve the amd problems that we have in newer 
versions of kvm.

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