From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: qemu-kvm 0.12.0-rc2: can't install windows 2008 std Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:52:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4B2E482B.8000209@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Mueller Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38743 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753352AbZLTPwa (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:52:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/20/2009 04:11 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > after having problems with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 and windows 2008 under i/o I > thought trying the new 0.12.0-rc2 and make some tests. > > so i've compiled qemu-kvm 0.12.0-rc2 and tried to install Windows 2008 > Standard 64bit. > > it shows the "Windows is loading files" screen and then BSOD with > 0x0000007E . I tried if=ide and if=scsi. none of them are working. at > least with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 this was working. > > booting an existing WinXP guest or a linux live cd (sysresccd) is > working with 0.12.0-rc2 > > kvm cmd: > > kvm \ > -usbdevice tablet \ > -drive file=drive1.raw,cache=none,if=ide,boot=on \ > -net nic,model=e1000 -net user \ > -k de-ch -m 2048 \ > -smp 2 -monitor stdio \ > -localtime -drive file=win2008.iso,media=cdrom,if=ide > > > > I can't reproduce this with your command line. What Windows version is this (2008, 2008 r2, x86, x64)? What's your host cpu type? And what's your kvm version? Does -smp 1 work? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function