Re: Problems in starting windows using qemu-kvm from arch

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Satish Kagathara wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thank you for prompt response. I am having SATA HDD and in BIOS - SATA
> is configured as RAID. With that configuration i had installed Windows
> 7.
> 
> How can i prepare it to boot from PIIXE IDE controller?
> 
> Strange thing is - I am getting Windows XP activation error when i
> qemu-kvm XP, standalone XP works fine. For Windows 7, i can see
> Windows 7 startup logo screen then blue screen appears.

This is answered in my first email:
>> 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.

> Do you think qemu should work if not qemu-kvm? Also, is there
> standalone kvm package/utility which i can try?

This is the same thing, basically - qemu emulates everything,
so it's slow, qemu-kvm runs at native cpu/memory speed but
still emulates all the rest, exactly the same way qemu does.

/mjt