From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: Problems in starting windows using qemu-kvm from arch Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:43:45 +0400 Message-ID: <4CBD6851.8090209@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Satish Kagathara Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:45973 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751375Ab0JSJmm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:42:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Satish Kagathara wrote: > Hello, > > I am facing problems in launching windows XP & 7 using qemu-kvm / qemu [] > qemu-kvm /dev/sda - I have grub menu.lst which gives me list and i am > selecting windows to boot but windows does not start. I can see > startup but then fails. qemu-kvm emulates an IDE disk connected to PIIX IDE controller. If your windows is prepared to boot from this controller, it will most likely work. Or else you'll have to prepare it to boot from it. The issue is exactly the same as if you moved your whole disk with windows to a different computer with different hardware. Which is not in scope of this mailinglist really, it's windows-related question. /mjt