Re: Windows under KVM + dual boot

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

David Abrahams wrote:
>>> I want to be able to launch the same windows installation under KVM/Linux
>>> that I can also boot into directly.  Are there instructions somewhere
>>> for that?
>>>
>>> I could try to adapt http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/, but I
>>> would prefer to have something more kvm-specific if possible.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'm not aware of anyone doing this currently although I suspect that 
>> it's definitely possible.  If you have any success, documenting it in 
>> the wiki would be greatly appreciated!
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, KVM core dumps the instant I select XP from my grub
> menu.  By contrast, it will happily launch a linux kernel (on
> partitions other than the ones I'm booted into; don't worry).  This
> makes me think that it's probably not a driver problem, although I
> could of course be wrong.
>
> Anyone care to help me diagnose this one?
>   

We probably misemulate something that grub uses when chainloading 
another bootloader.

A good test is running with -no-kvm.  The gdb backtrace from the core 
dump is also interesting.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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