From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:31:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521D1AB0.1070904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521D0B84.8040301@rdsoftware.de>
Il 27/08/2013 22:26, Erik Rull ha scritto:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> which BIOS is selected by default?
QEMU only ships with SeaBIOS.
> It's more a guess, there must be a
> change between 1.2.0 and 1.6.0 that prevents a simple Windows XP from
> booting completely, if the guest HDD image is placed on a SSD. On a
> rotating HDD (with the same commandline except the path to the image) it
> boots successfully. The only difference is the speed of the disk access.
It could be a real difference, actually. An unexpectedly fast disk
might screw a sloppy driver. IIRC you're not the first person reporting
it. Stefan, do you think using block throttling could fix it (with some
trial and error)?
> I will try an alternative BIOS, maybe this fixes it, if not I will try
> to do some regression tests, first trying 1.4.0.
This could help.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-27 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-26 9:52 [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest Erik Rull
2013-08-27 7:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-27 20:26 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-27 21:31 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-27 21:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-28 8:05 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 11:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 7:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-28 9:07 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:34 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:51 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 14:05 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 14:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 14:26 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 18:21 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 18:40 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 19:22 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29 7:53 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29 9:25 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-29 14:51 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29 14:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-29 15:31 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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