Re: Vista 32 Premium 32 bit gets blue screen on boot

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

Haydn Solomon wrote:
> I've installed vista premium home 32 bit  on previous versions of kvm, 
> namely 24-1 which is packaged with fedora 7. Since then I've removed 
> these packages and building kvm from releases from sourceforge 
> provided qumranet website. When I try to install vista premium home 32 
> bit using kvm release 36 I'm getting blue screen.  I'm running on a 
> dell 1720 core 2 duo, 2 GB ram. I'm running fedora 7 64-bit. The 
> previously installed windows xp ( installed using kvm release 35 ) is 
> running fine under release 36. I'm starting kvm with the following:
>
> /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -hda vistahome.img \
> -m 400 \
> -no-rtc \
> -localtime \
> -boot d \
> -cdrom /home/hsolomon/isos/VISTA_32_PREMIUM.iso &
>
> The message from the blue screen is:
>
> ***STOP: 0X000000A5 ( 0X0001000B, 0X50434146, 0XFFD0502C, 0X00000000 )
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks and great piece of work here 
> guys.
>

Can you check which version of kvm causes the regression?

If kvm-35 works and kvm-36 doesn't, try copying kvm-35's bios.bin (from 
qemu/pc-bios) to the install location  (/use/local/share/qemu/bios.bin 
by default)

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