Re: Booting/installing WindowsNT

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 05/01/2010 12:40 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 01.05.2010 00:59, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> Apparently with current kvm stable (0.12.3)
>> Windows NT 4.0 does not install anymore.
>>
>> With default -cpu, it boots, displays the
>> "Inspecting your hardware configuration"
>> message and BSODs with "STOP: 0x0000003E"
>> error as shown here:
>> http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/winnt4_1.gif
>> With -cpu pentium the situation is a
>> >bit< better, it displays:
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Windows NT (TM) Version 4.0 (Build 1381).
>> 1 System Processor [512 MB Memory] Multiprocessor Kernel
>>
>> and stops there with 100% CPU usage, never
>> going any further.
>>
>> Kvm command line is trivial, with -hda
>> and -cdrom and -vga std (with -vga cirrus
>> it displays garbage here). The only parameters
>> of interest are:
>>
>> -no-acpi - this one has no visible effect
>> -cpu pentium - tried that with some change
>> but no success anyway.
>
> I were able to boot and install it just fine
> using -cpu host (without -no-acpi or any
> other option).
>
>  Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) version 4.0 (Build 1381: Service Pack 1)
>  (C) 1981-1996
>
> where my host cpu is Athlon X2-64 4850e (2 cores).
>
> I tried a few other -cpu values, but no luck - it
> either BSODs with 0x3E error, or stops after first
> kernel message.

Interesting.  Can you try -cpu host with the family/model/vendor etc 
used by -cpu qemu64?


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