Re: KVM and Vista question

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

Anup Gangwar wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was trying to get Vista 64-bit to boot off QEMU and was pointed to 
> this list from the QEMU developers list. From the guest compatibility 
> page I could gather that KVM with Intel host is able to boot a Vista 
> 64-bit guest, however the stand-alone version of QEMU does not (yet) 
> support booting Vista. Could someone please provide more insight as to 
> how this is achieved. My understanding is that there are problems in:
>
> 1. ACPI code in QEMU BIOS
> 2. Deficiencies in device model
>
> I believe that these issues are addressed in the QEMU  tree being 
> maintained with KVM. Is there anything additional which KVM does to 
> get Vista to work?

You might try using the kvm bios, or looking at the changelog for the bios.

There may be other necessary changes as well, but unfortunately nothing 
springs to mind.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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