From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: xp guest, blue screen c0000221 on boot Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:29:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4AE96E71.2000106@redhat.com> References: <4AE6100F.6040705@memphis.edu> <4AE6BE76.2010503@redhat.com> <4AE862E9.9000701@memphis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Andrew Olney Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20748 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbZJ2K3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:29:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AE862E9.9000701@memphis.edu> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/28/09 16:27, Andrew Olney wrote: > Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't make > new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged". > > The image was created with > > qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G > > And the setup command is > > kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.img -boot d -m 512 -no-acpi -usb > -usbdevice tablet I had trouble getting winxp installed within kvm too. Stopped with all sorts of funny errors depending on how I started it (with/without acpi, ...). Don't remember the exact errors, but one disk-related was among them. Happended only on my AMD box though, on the Intel machine it worked fine. Both ran a quite simliar setup (Fedora 11). Which made me suspect hardware problems. Tried to upgrade the BIOS -> works fine now. HTH, Gerd