From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Piv-0006VB-7B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:17:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Pir-0006Un-H3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:17:32 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Pir-0006Uk-CE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:17:29 -0500 Received: from [199.185.220.223] (helo=priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7PmX-0006gi-UX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:21:18 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (really [216.232.4.200]) by priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060210041724.PTYY8803.priv-edtnes51.telusplanet.net@[192.168.1.3]> for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:17:24 -0700 From: Malcolm Lalkaka Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1139545029.15141.18.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Regarding 3.11.2.6 WinXP security problem Reply-To: mlalkaka@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:17:33 -0000 To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hello, I am not a developer, but I found (through experience) some information that will most likely be useful to you. It is regarding the bug described in section 3.11.2.6 in the QEMU User Documentation. I installed Windows XP Professional as the guest OS successfully, and everything was working fine at first. But after restarting I received the license error message (as described in section 3.11.2.6). It turns out that this was caused by that fact that kqemu was not being used (the module wasn't loaded after restarting). After loading the module (and correcting the file permissions), Windows XP loaded perfectly, with no error message. So although this is not quite a solution to the bug, it seems that the problem lies in the QEMU Accelerator. I don't know if this makes a difference, but I used the Accelerator to install Windows XP. My computer system information is as follows. Architecture: i386 (Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz) RAM: 512 MB (for QEMU, the default amount of memory is used) OS: Ubuntu Linux 5.10 "Breezy Badger" QEMU version: 0.8.0, with KQEMU; compiled with gcc 3.4.5 20050809 If you need any more information, feel free to e-mail me. By the way, thank you for developing such a fine piece of software. I hope this helps solve the bug, Malcolm