Re: Booting/installing WindowsNT

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

02.05.2010 20:40, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 07:12 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>>
>>
>> After installing, winNT does not boot without -cpu host,
>> with exactly the same diagnostics as before (0x0000003E).
>> But: After installing service pack 6, it boots just fine
>> with any -cpu, including the default qemu64.
>>
>> With qemu-kvm-0.11.4 it all just works without any
>> additional options.
>>
>> I asked the other person with this issue (see debian bug,
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575439 )
>> to try -cpu host, but for him it didn't help. I suspect
>> (but don't know for sure) he's running it on Intel CPU.
>
> Ok. Please try the following:
>
> qemu-0.12 with 0.11's bios.

I tried that as one of first options.  I can't get it to
boot at all, kvm displays the sdl window with black background
and it stays black, no even bios messages are shown.

Thanks!

/mjt

> compare the cpuid flags from 0.11 and 0.12, mix and match until 0.12 works.
>