Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 64 linux host

[Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>]

Jie Zhang wrote:
> I'm trying to run an existing windows xp (32 bit) partition in qemu on a
> x86 64 bit linux host. I always got
>
> A disk read error occurred
> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
>
> when qemu starts.
>
> There is no problem to run an existing windows xp in qemu on a x86 32
> bit linux host. There is no problem to install and run windows xp in
> qemu from a disk image file on x86 64 bit linux host.
>
> Interestingly, I tried KVM and Virtualbox. I got the same error message
> for both of them. Since both KVM and Virtualbox use some modules from
> qemu, I guess the root cause is in qemu. So I first report this bug here.
>
More information.

The above machine is Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 and 
100G hard disk.

I just tried to run an existing windows xp partition in qemu on my pc, 
which is Dell Inspiron 531 and has an AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ and 80G hard 
disk. Qemu can boot the xp.


Jie