[SOLVED] Re: qemu-kvm 0.12.0-rc2: can't install windows 2008 std

[Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>]

Am Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:52:11 +0200 schrieb Avi Kivity:

> 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
>>
>>
>>    
> 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?

I used:
kernel 2.6.30.2
qemu-kvm 0.12.0-rc2 
processor:  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T9400  @ 2.53GHz
os: windows 2008 standard 64bit english

I switched now to:
kernel 2.6.32
qemu-kvm 0.12.1

now i don't get the BSOD anymore. 

so now I can go on and do i/o tests. :)

thanks!

- Thomas