From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TACdD-0007AJ-9t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:26:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TACdC-0005lc-1R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:26:55 -0400 Received: from v220110690675601.yourvserver.net ([78.47.199.172]:54505) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TACdB-0005kM-Qv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:26:53 -0400 Message-ID: <504AC909.8090502@weilnetz.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:26:49 +0200 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU (no kvm) Win7 (64bit) boot error List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Clemens Kolbitsch Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 08.09.2012 02:48, schrieb Clemens Kolbitsch: > Hi guys, > > I need to run Win7 64bit in Qemu without KVM support. I found a few > messages concerning the "unsupported architecture" problem (Windows > shows a BSOD with "STOP 0x0000005D ..." on boot), for example > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg01623.html > or > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/92457 > > but I don't think there was ever a solution to the problem - at least > what is proposed does not work (I've tried stable and GIT versions). > > Since I have a decent background of modifying the Qemu internals, I'm > more than happy to contribute to solving this issue, but I'm not sure > if anyone is currently working on it (i.e., I don't want to start at 0 > in case someone is about to release a patch). > > Please let me know if there is already a know solution/workaround or > whoever might be working on it, please ping me so we can sync. > > BTW, in case this is necessary, here are the details of what I > need/what is not working: > > Qemu: current git-trunk, > > x86_64-softmmu$ ./qemu-system-x86_64 --version > QEMU emulator version 1.2.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard > > host: 64bit, Ubuntu LTS12.04 > > guest: 64bit Windows 7, no KVM possible > > Thanks! > -Clemens Hi Clemens, AFAIK, nobody is working on this issue which exists for a long time now. It would be great if you could find a solution to make QEMU without KVM work with Windows guests. Regards, Stefan W. PS: It's QEMU, not Qemu. I modified the subject in my reply :-)