Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

[GUERRAZ Francois <francois.guerraz@alyotech.fr>]

Hello.

Yes but if I understood well, you can't boot on the SCSI device because
of BIOS limitations right?
So the problem remains ... :)

Maybe if you install GRUB and tell him to boot on SCSI...... :)

---
François.

Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 10:55 -0500, risc@volumehost.com a écrit :
> on x86, qemu by default does not emulate a scsi device.
> 
> if you look at my last set of postings, you will see a patch set for adding scsi controllers on demand.
> 
> its got some code formatting issues, so i understand why it hasnt been merged as of yet. i intend to publish a new version in the next couple of days.
> 
> Julia Longtin <risc@volumehost.com>
> 
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:33:31PM +0200, GUERRAZ Francois wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Micro$oft's 64bits OSes are known to be problematic w/ kvm.
> > 
> > I guess that the main problem w/ Qemu is that Microsoft Virtual Server
> > can emulate a SCSI controller and Qemu cannot... I havent checked but I
> > bet they installed their VM's with just SCSI drivers...
> > Try to install IDE drivers from VM Ware and then to boot from QEMU.
> > Also, try to disable ACPI (update the "computer" driver to "Standard PC"
> > if available)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > François.
> > 
> > Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 23:35 +0930, Dan Shearer a écrit :
> > > I have been playing around with the demonstration Windows images
> > > downloadable from Microsoft just to see how hard it would be to use the
> > > OSs they provide. The images are designed for Microsoft Virtual Server,
> > > but can be successfully converted to qcow2 and vhdx using qemu-img. QEMU
> > > won't boot the images (not a difficult problem, I think) but VMware can.
> > > I'll try other free virtualisation systems at some point.
> > > 
> > > See http://shearer.org/Microsoft_Demo_VMs for my notes so far.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>