[Qemu-devel] Windows boot is waiting for keypress

[Reeted <reeted@shiftmail.org>]

Hello,
I am virtualizing a Windows 2000 machine (bit-by-bit copy of physical 
machine).

It apparently works fine except for one strange thing: windows 2000 
stops at the black screen (first step of boot) where it asks me if I 
want to load Windows 2000 or previous operating system.

When the machine was physical there was a short timeout in that screen, 
and then it would proceed with the default choice of windows 2000, but 
in qemu it waits forever like if I pressed a key to interrupt the timeout.

Note that there is another bootloader *before* that one (it chainloads 
the windows bootloader), and that one also has a timeout which can be 
interrupted with a keypress, but that one does not show the problem, 
i.e. goes ahead after its timeout without my need to press key.

That's a problem because I cannot really start the Windows VM from linux 
scripting as it stops at boot. Sending a keypress to a VM 
programmatically is not so easy methinks... or do you know how to do that?

This is with qemu-kvm 1.0

Thanks for any idea