[Qemu-devel] Win2K Problems, qemu crashes host system

[Qemu-devel] Win2K Problems, qemu crashes host system

[Mailinglisten für Philipp Gühring]

Hi, 

I have still problems installing Win2k in qemu 0.5.5 and 0.6.0. In the 
middle
of the installation, my computer freezes completely. I think that it is a
problem with the X-Server, I can improve the situation by switching to the
test-console while Win2k installs. 

When I try to watch the installation, it hangs in the middle of transferring
the files in the blue text-based installer, and the resulting installation
does not boot. 

When I switch to textmode after starting the installation, it survives the
text-based installation, and hangs when it displays the timezone selection.
The installation is bootable, but it sometimes boots a bit, and sometimes
hangs with the windows message about pressing F8 to choose boot options. 

I am running a SuSE 9.1, with Linux 2.6.5, and trying to install Win2k
Professional. 

The commandline: 

qemu -hda hda -cdrom /dev/cdrecorder -boot d 


My X-Server:
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number:    40399902
XFree86 version: 4.3.99.902 

The behaviour is reproducable, so if you need any more details, just tell me
which. 

Many greetings,
Philipp Gühring

Re: [Qemu-devel] Win2K Problems, qemu crashes host system

[Joe Batt]

I had serious stability problems with VMWare on my Dell 1600sc with ECC
memory.  memtest found nothing, but after installing some tool from dell
that dumped out system logs, it turned out to be a memory fault. 
Crucial took a return with no problem.

You may want to test memory with another tool.  Emulators and
virtualizers use lot of memory that might not otherwise be tested.

Now my last set of crashes were due to bad X drivers.  After days of
running memtest and thrashing about in Dell support forums, I realized
that my apt database was bad and that I was running an inconsistent X
configuration.

All of my Linux system crashes can be attributed to bad X drivers and
memory errors.

Joe

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:46, Mailinglisten für Philipp Gühring wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have still problems installing Win2k in qemu 0.5.5 and 0.6.0. In the 
> middle
> of the installation, my computer freezes completely. I think that it is a
> problem with the X-Server, I can improve the situation by switching to the
> test-console while Win2k installs. 
> 
> When I try to watch the installation, it hangs in the middle of transferring
> the files in the blue text-based installer, and the resulting installation
> does not boot. 
> 
> When I switch to textmode after starting the installation, it survives the
> text-based installation, and hangs when it displays the timezone selection.
> The installation is bootable, but it sometimes boots a bit, and sometimes
> hangs with the windows message about pressing F8 to choose boot options. 
> 
> I am running a SuSE 9.1, with Linux 2.6.5, and trying to install Win2k
> Professional. 
> 
> The commandline: 
> 
> qemu -hda hda -cdrom /dev/cdrecorder -boot d 
> 
> 
> My X-Server:
> version number:    11.0
> vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
> vendor release number:    40399902
> XFree86 version: 4.3.99.902 
> 
> The behaviour is reproducable, so if you need any more details, just tell me
> which. 
> 
> Many greetings,
> Philipp Gühring
> 
> 
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