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 14:35:28 +0400 Message-ID: <4CBD7470.9060101@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <4CBD6851.8090209@msgid.tls.msk.ru> 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]:45952 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933658Ab0JSKeY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:34:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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