[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] [NEW] Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] [NEW] Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

Public bug reported:

Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and
AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic
output but i don't think it should be an issue.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Cole Robinson]

There's a fedora rawhide bug about this as well:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

Which points to a qemu-devel posting talking about disk geometry
confusion:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/66135

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #579348
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Anthony Liguori]

Can someone try to reproduce this without ,boot=on?

It's possible that extboot is screwing up the disk geometry.

** Also affects: fedora via
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Natalia Portillo]

I don't have any problem using TCG.

Tested with Windows XP Home Update in 0.12.4 and Windows 2003 Enterprise
Server in 0.12.3.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

It's a very strange bug.

Starting qemu without boot=on results in the same dilemma.

But: I've used a .vdi image (because qcow2 is terribly slow).
Just now I tried a raw image. Now I can boot neither directly from the image nor with the install cd. Both ways boot finally NTLDR, but now the loader has a problem with the drive. (I don't know how this message is called in the english version, but the german version says: "An error occurred while reading the drive. Restart with Ctrl+Alt+Del.")

Now I'll try to install Windows Server 2008 R2...

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Joel Schopp]

** Tags added: windows

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Ryan Harper]

Can someone post the exact qemu command line that gets generated so we
can test without libvirt?

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

Do you mean, I should try to install and boot Win2k3 without libvirt?

If I install Windows through libvirt and boot it with a simple command line like
> qemu-kvm -hda /someimage.img -enable-kvm
it doesn't boot.

It's in fact this bug, just like Cole meant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

Also interesting, if I use a raw image instead of a vdi image, the
workaround (booting the install cd and let it hand over to the installed
windows) doesn't work anymore.

Now I'll set up another machine with gentoo and try all combinations of
image file types, Windozes (< NT 6.0) and qemu options and I'll report
the results.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Ryan Harper]

It sounds like this is an existing image that you can't boot from.  I
can create a new 2k3 VM with upstream qemu and boot it again after
install with no issues.  So I'm wondering if you can also do this.  If
so, then something happened to your existing image (maybe some sort of
corruption of the boot sector ?).

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Olivier Berger]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #579166
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579166

** Also affects: debian via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579166
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: debian
       Status: Unknown => New

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Gleb Natapov]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:16:11PM -0000, Bug Watch Updater wrote:
> ** Changed in: debian
>        Status: Unknown => New
> 
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> Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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> 
> Status in QEMU: Incomplete
> Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New
> Status in Fedora: Unknown
> 
> Bug description:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
> If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.
> 
> I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> > qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
> it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."
> 
Remove "boot=on". If this helps, then you most probably run with tcg
instead of kvm.

> I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.
> 
> 

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Cole Robinson]

I can reproduce with qemu-kvm 0.12.4 like the original reporter. I
cannot reproduce with qemu-kvm upstream, qemu stable, or qemu upstream.
So boot=on could be the culprit. Libvirt generated command line:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin
/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc-0.12 -no-kvm -m 512 -smp
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name winxp_test -uuid 634dff56-8c5a-fdbb-
b5fc-091bcf78e586 -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/winxp_test.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/winxp_test.img,if=none,id=drive-
ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive
=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive
file=/mnt/data/media/win_xp_sp3_32.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-
ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive
=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device
rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:ac:e8:ca,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net
tap,fd=20,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-
serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc
127.0.0.1:1 -k en-us -vga std -device virtio-balloon-
pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3

Markus has a patch internally against an older qemu-kvm release that
apparently fixes the issue, however the upstream code is different so it
doesn't cleanly apply. Maybe this will give someone a hint for a proper
upstream solution:

 hw/pc.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index d142282..c60a79a 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -271,12 +271,16 @@ static void cmos_init(ram_addr_t ram_size, ram_addr_t above_4g_mem_size,
      */
     for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
         char id[32];
+        int cylinders, heads, secs;
 
         if (hd_table[i])
             continue;
         snprintf(id, sizeof(id), "drive-ide0-%d-%d",
                  i / MAX_IDE_DEVS, i % MAX_IDE_DEVS);
         hd_table[i] = drive_get_by_id(id);
+        if (hd_table[i]) {
+            bdrv_guess_geometry(hd_table[i]->bdrv, &cylinders, &heads, &secs);
+        }
     }
 
     /* various important CMOS locations needed by PC/Bochs bios */

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Markus Armbruster]

Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> writes:

> I can reproduce with qemu-kvm 0.12.4 like the original reporter. I
> cannot reproduce with qemu-kvm upstream, qemu stable, or qemu upstream.
> So boot=on could be the culprit. Libvirt generated command line:
>
> LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin
> /qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc-0.12 -no-kvm -m 512 -smp
> 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name winxp_test -uuid 634dff56-8c5a-fdbb-
> b5fc-091bcf78e586 -nodefaults -chardev
> socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/winxp_test.monitor,server,nowait
> -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/winxp_test.img,if=none,id=drive-
> ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive
> =drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive
> file=/mnt/data/media/win_xp_sp3_32.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-
> ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive
> =drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device
> rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:ac:e8:ca,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net
> tap,fd=20,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-
> serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc
> 127.0.0.1:1 -k en-us -vga std -device virtio-balloon-
> pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
>
> Markus has a patch internally against an older qemu-kvm release that
> apparently fixes the issue, however the upstream code is different so it
> doesn't cleanly apply. Maybe this will give someone a hint for a proper
> upstream solution:

[snipp...]

That's only the second part of a revolting emergency hack.

Anyway, I posted a fix for current master yesterday:

Subject: [PATCH 12/12] pc: Fix CMOS info for drives defined with -device
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:53:32 +0200
Message-Id: <1277484812-22012-13-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>

If it still needs backporting it to stable when I've dug myself out of
my current pit, I'll give it a try.  Wouldn't mind if somebody else beat
me to it.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

Long time no post, i tried to install Win2k3 through RIS/PXE this time.
I still get the same error at boot time: "A disk read error occurred.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart".

Neither the Win2k3 install source nor the VirtIO drivers are defective.
Something's just wrong with QEMU.

Currently qemu.git is able to compile itself properly, so I'll check it
out. Without libvirt (because it can't parse "qemu-kvm-devel" as version
string :/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609741 )

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #609741
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609741

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Jona]

Ran into this problem today with fresh Windows 2003 R2 install on a IDE
boot drive. Because the CD-ROM boot bypasses this problem the install
completes just fine, until I tell it to boot from the hard disk (via
libvirt).

Latest available packages from Debian testing;

qemu 0.12.4+dfsg-3
qemu-kvm 0.12.4+dfsg-1
qemu-system 0.12.4+dfsg-3
qemu-user 0.12.4+dfsg-3
qemu-utils 0.12.4+dfsg-3
seabios 0.5.1-3

The only thing I've been able to find so far is an odd character in the
SeaBIOS string when booting from the hard disk, which isn't there when
booting from the CD-ROM image.

** Attachment added: "Screenshot of odd character in SeaBIOS string (VNC)"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51532804/seabios-odd-character-boot-bug.png

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

I agree to #10. Today I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.4-r3 and I still can't
boot Windows XP/2003 without booting the install cd at first.

But now: After I tried to boot the Windows installation I get the same
odd char in the screen as described by #10. Plus, I can install Windows
without problems, but it doesn't boot AFTER the setup, whether I use IDE
or VirtIO as hard disk bus.

Ergo: Booting from install cd, the setup copies the files on the hard
disk, reboot, booting from hard disk, the setup installs Windows,
reboot, and then: it hangs. Seems to be an BIOS issue.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

P.S.: Of course I can't boot Windows XP/2003 from a VirtIO drive at all,
because the install cd only checks the IDE bus for an existing Windows
installation...

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Olivier Berger]

I'm not sure all experience the same as me, but it may be worth having a
look at the workaround I found, described here : http://bugs.debian.org
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579166#17

Hth.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

I have to correct myself.

Booting from Windows XP/2003 after the first reboot of the Windows setup
is still impossible (without booting from the install CD at first).

I tried both the command line used by libvirt and the following one:

> qemu-kvm -hda thisfile -cdrom thatfile -boot c

Also, I tested these command lines on qemu-kvm-0.12.4, qemu-
kvm-0.12.4-r3 and qemu.git with SeaBIOS 0.5.1, 0.6.0 and seabios.git
respectively. Windows always hangs at boot time. (But Windows Server
2008 R2 boots up. I assume Windows 7 and Vista will do fine as well.)

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[CurtisNelson]

I have this problem as well.  I'm installing using a slightly different
situation -- I'm restoring a WinXP/Win2k3 backup that was made with
fsarchiver -- but essentially I run across the same issue namely that
boot fails when mbr tries to boot the first partition.  In my case I use
install-mbr from the mbr package but have also tried to install the
windows mbr from the boot cd without success.  Here are the steps I've
taken and the partial fix I've discovered.

First, let me say that these steps worked perfectly in 9.10.  In fact, I
can move the raw image from 9.10 to 10.04 and boot it without problem.
That was initially how I got these restores to work; I installed on a
Karmic laptop and moved the raw image to Lucid.

Install Notes:

Install Procedure (for karmic or lucid):

1. boot system to image to rescuecd and backup xp or win2k3 using fsarchiver:
 fsarchiver savefs /some/remote/location/win.fsa /dev/sda1
2. on kvm host create restore disk:
 lvcreate -L10GB -n win vg
3. boot virt with rescuecd
 kvm -m 1024 -cdrom rescuecd.iso -hda /dev/vg/win -boot d
3. partition disk (entire disk, one partition, active):
 fdisk /dev/sda
 commands: o n p 1 [] [] t 7 a 1 w
4. restore archive:
 fsarchiver restfs win.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/mapper/vg-winp1
5. install mbr:
 install-mbr /dev/sda
6. halt virt and reboot to image:
 kvm -m 1024 -hda /dev/vg/win

At this point, the image will boot in 9.10. But following the same steps
in lucid it will hang after the mbr boots the first partition.

I tried everything I could think of and all the different steps found on
the web including repairing the mbr changing disk types and boot options
to no avail.  What was odd for me is that the resulting image created on
karmic would boot on lucid which indicated to me that once the install
was completed successfully whatever kvm was doing didn't matter -- it
was just the creation of the mbr or file system in the kvm boot that was
at fault.

My next step at this point was to install hexedit and compare the two
resulting images.  Specifically, the mbr at the beginning of the disk
and the ntfs partition starting at sector 63.  On the net there is some
talk about changing 0x7E1A to 'FF' -- which is supposed to indicate disk
geometry of the ntfs partition.  There were three values that were
different at this point in the ntfs file region -- 0x8E18, 0x7E1A, and
0x7E1C.  The first two did not seem to have any effect.  But changing
0x7E1C to the value of '3F' would result in the image booting properly.
Evidently this is the part of the NTFS file system that records the
starting sector of the partition.  This change successfully booted all
my test cases restores with a single partition.

OK, so at this point I backtracked and did just steps 1-4 on both Karmic
and Lucid but instead of booting to a rescuecd in the virt I used kpartx
to mount the raw file system:

1. make backup
 fsarchiver savefs win.fsa /dev/sda1
2. create disk
 lvcreate -L10GB -n win vg
3. partition
  fdisk /dev/vg/win
4. mount to loop, restore, detach
 kpartx -av /dev/vg/win
 fsarchiver restfs win.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/mapper/vg-winp1
 kpartx -dv /dev/loop0
5. install mbr
 install-mbr /dev/vg/win

At this point, unfortunately, these steps will not boot on either karmic
or lucid -- the boot section of the ntfs partition does not seem to
write correctly (0x8E18, 0x7E1A, and 0x7E1C are all '00').  However, if
you change 0x7E1C to '3F', these resulting images will boot fine:

6. after hexedit, boot, success
 kvm -m 1024 -hda /dev/vg/win

Hope this helps track down this issue.  My feeling here is that this is
not an issue with the mbr but rather the creation of the ntfs file
system.  And it does seem that the disk geometry presented by the
version of kvm in lucid is different enough from karmic to cause the
ntfs file system incorrectly write sector 0x7E1C thus causing the
resulting image to hang at boot.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:15:24PM -0000, CurtisNelson wrote:
> My next step at this point was to install hexedit and compare the two
> resulting images.  Specifically, the mbr at the beginning of the disk
> and the ntfs partition starting at sector 63.  On the net there is some
> talk about changing 0x7E1A to 'FF' -- which is supposed to indicate disk
> geometry of the ntfs partition.  There were three values that were
> different at this point in the ntfs file region -- 0x8E18, 0x7E1A, and
> 0x7E1C.  The first two did not seem to have any effect.  But changing
> 0x7E1C to the value of '3F' would result in the image booting properly.
> Evidently this is the part of the NTFS file system that records the
> starting sector of the partition.  This change successfully booted all
> my test cases restores with a single partition.

This looks like some hd geometry confusion.  You could try playing
with the qemu "-hdachs" option to force a different geometry
translation.

You might also want to capture the seabios log to see what it thinks
the drive geometry is.  On qemu you can add the following to the
command-line to see the seabios log:

qemu -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios

look for lines like:

"drive %p: PCHS=%u/%d/%d translation=%s LCHS=%d/%d/%d s=%d\n"

-Kevin

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[CurtisNelson]

** Also affects: ubuntu
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Package changed: ubuntu => qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[flashydave]

I am struggling with the same problem with a WIndows 2003 install under
virt-manager/virsh The byte at 7e1c was already set to 3F. hexediting
the byte at offset 7e1a to FF allowed the system to boot OK.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Mathias Gug]

** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[James Pulver]

I'm getting the same error with restoring an Acronis based image to KVM
on Scientific Linux 5.4. The image is known good, and I just tested to
physical hardware and it boots fine. I hope this can be fixed...

How are people hex editing the disk?

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Andreas Jacob]

I run into the same problem, but the workaround regarding editing the
number of heads in the ntfs partition boot sector did it for me. Little
Howto:

Asume: A raw complete harddisc image within a bootable NTFS partition
with XP or 2k3 on it

Incident: when using these image with kvm based qemu, the system wan't
boot anymore

solution:

1) set up the whole discimage as a loop device
- losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/my/diskimage.raw

2) let kpartx create drive mappings for all partitions within the loop device
- kpartx -a /dev/loop0

3) you need to know on which partition your NTFS partition resides
- fdisk -l /dev/loop0

4) use the right partition mapping with hex-edit (eg. partition 1)
- hexedit /dev/mapper/loop0p1

5) look on hex position 0x1a, for the count of heads NTFS asumes
- in hexedit type enter and then 1A

6) change the value to 0xFF 
- in hexedit type FF

7) save and exit hexedit
- press Ctrl+X to end 

8) remove the partition mappings
- kpartx -d /dev/loop0

9) remove loop device
- losetup -d /dev/loop0

Hope that helps

Cheers Andreas

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Andy Lee Robinson]

Great solution Andreas, it worked for a Win2k image which I could only
boot previously using an iso from http://www.resoo.org/docs/ntldr/files/

However, I have a w7 image that I have never managed to boot, apart from
its installation cd image using virt-install

20Gb w7 image:

# losetup /dev/loop0 /vm/w7.img; kpartx -a /dev/loop0
# fdisk -l /dev/loop0

Disk /dev/loop0: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf12c11f

      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/loop0p1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/loop0p2              13        2611    20867072    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

# hexedit /dev/mapper/loop0p1
00000000   EB 52 90 4E  54 46 53 20  20 20 20 00  02 08 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 F8 00 00  3F 00 10 00  00 08 00 00  .R.NTFS    .............?.......
00000020   00 00 00 00  80 00 80 00  FF 1F 03 00  00 00 00 00  55 21 00 00  00 00 00 00  02 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  ................U!..............


# hexedit /dev/mapper/loop0p2
00000000   EB 52 90 4E  54 46 53 20  20 20 20 00  02 08 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 F8 00 00  3F 00 10 00  00 28 03 00  .R.NTFS    .............?....(..
00000020   00 00 00 00  80 00 80 00  FF CF 7C 02  00 00 00 00  00 00 0C 00  00 00 00 00  02 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  ..........|.....................


# kpartx -d /dev/loop0; losetup -d /dev/loop0

I changed location 0x1a to 0xFF on one or other or both partitions and
it still will not boot in virt-manager.

Cheers,
Andy.

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Andreas Jacob]

Hi Andy

When i look at your w7 partition table output, then there seems to be a
problem with start/end cylinders.

Your first partitions last cylinder is 13, but also the start cylinder
of your second partition is 13. two partitions should not share the same
cylinder/sector! Something seems to be messed up.

I would create a loop device and then use a deep scan with "testdisk" on
that loop device. May be it's possible to correct the wrong entrys in
the partition table.

Cheers Andreas

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Jt Loni]

I had the same problem.

I.ve tried with VirtualBox and KVM: Win Xp SP3 hang on the same point (mup.sys when "safe mode")...
Both has the same problem I believe the libvirt maybe the cause.  

So I use "Raw Access" with VirtualBox that solved my problem....

00:00:01.385 [/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#0/AttachedDriver/Config/] (level 6)
00:00:01.385   Format <string>  = "VMDK" (cb=5)
00:00:01.385   Path   <string>  = "/home/jtloni/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/xp3.vmdk" (cb=45)

hope will help..

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Andy Lee Robinson]

Andreas,

The program that created the disk image seems confused, but it worked for creating a VM for FC11.
Windows install seems to run fine, until wanting to boot from the drive it created.
I don't know what creates the drive image and geometry, but it is broken.

I think this is what I used to create the VM, but I have messed around
with so many configurations and methods, I'm not sure what is what
anymore.

virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n w7 -r 2048 --vcpus=2 \
--disk path=/vm/w7.img,size=20,sparse=false,format=qcow2 \
-c /vm/w7cd.iso --vnc --noautoconsole \
--os-type windows --os-variant win7 --accelerate --network=bridge:br0 --hvm

How many thousands of people have struggled with this and also got nowhere?
It just looks like the virt-install developers have not tasted their own dogfood!

LVM is supposed to be easy - just select vm image and boot, but the more
I read about VMs, kvm, qemu, virtualbox, virsh etc, the more confused I get on how they
relate to each other.

testdisk reports this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disk /dev/loop0 - 21 GB / 20 GiB - CHS 41943040 1 1         (wtf ??)

     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 1 * HPFS - NTFS                 2048     206847     204800 [System Reserved]
 2 P HPFS - NTFS               206848   41940991   41734144


Select 1:
Disk /dev/loop0 - 21 GB / 20 GiB - CHS 41943040 1 1
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 1 * HPFS - NTFS                 2048     206847     204800 [System Reserved]

Boot sector
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Status: OK

Backup boot sector
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Status: OK

Sectors are identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Rebuild BS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disk /dev/loop0 - 21 GB / 20 GiB - CHS 41943040 1 1
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 1 * HPFS - NTFS                 2048     206847     204800 [System Reserved]

filesystem size           204800 204800
sectors_per_cluster       8 8
mft_lcn                   8533 8533
mftmirr_lcn               2 2
clusters_per_mft_record   -10 -10
clusters_per_index_record 1 1
Extrapolated boot sector and current boot sector are different.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Q

Select 2:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disk /dev/loop0 - 21 GB / 20 GiB - CHS 41943040 1 1
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 2 P HPFS - NTFS               206848   41940991   41734144

Boot sector
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Status: OK

Backup boot sector
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Status: OK

Sectors are identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Rebuild BS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disk /dev/loop0 - 21 GB / 20 GiB - CHS 41943040 1 1
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 2 P HPFS - NTFS               206848   41940991   41734144

filesystem size           41734144 41734144
sectors_per_cluster       8 8
mft_lcn                   786432 786432
mftmirr_lcn               2 2
clusters_per_mft_record   -10 -10
clusters_per_index_record 1 1
Extrapolated boot sector and current boot sector are different.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It looks a mess.

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Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New
Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: debian
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Michael Tokarev]

This appears to be fixed in 0.13-tobe by this patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-07/msg00152.html
(hence it's "fix released" in debian which now has 0.13 in experimental).

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #588739
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588739

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Michael Tokarev]

(and it is also filed agains debian qemu-kvm package, not just qemu --
http://bugs.debian.org/588739 )

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Michael Tokarev]

This is fixed by a backport of the mentioned patchset to stable-0.12
branch, in qemu git tree, see
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=6394bd0e05441c363ebb73597c74c951378810e6

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

This bug is annoying. I don't know who patched what but:

1. I finally was able (with version 0.12.5) to set up a WinXP
installation which is able to boot on its own.

2. But this works only with IDE, if I try to use VirtIO I still can't
boot the installation.

3. I just updated from 0.12.5 to 0.12.5-r1 and again I can't boot the
WinXP installation on IDE.

What the hell are you doing?

I don't know what's wrong but qemu-kvm works with Windows Vista and
above much better than with Windows XP atm. Windows Server 2008 boots on
it's own even with the non-signed viostor drivers.

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Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

P.S.: I just read the link posted by Michael.

I have also to mention that this boot problem not only appears by using
the -drive parameter, even the good old -hda got this bug.

I've also tried to correct some funny offsets in the NTFS header, but
all offsets were already set to the right values. And it doesn't boot at
all.

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Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Michael Tokarev]

Does anyone else has similar problem?  With 0.12.4 I were able to repeat
it.  With 0.12.5 all winxp and win2003 installations, existing and new,
just work with either -drive or -hda or with virtio...

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Status in Debian GNU/Linux: Fix Released
Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu6

---------------
qemu-kvm (0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu6) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/fix-CMOS-info-for-drives-defined-with--device.patch: make sure
    the CMOS knows about the correct geometry so Windows XP installs
    properly. (LP: #586175)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>   Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:48:15 -0400

** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/qemu-kvm

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Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

In qemu-kvm-0.12.5-r1 Windows XP/2003 is booting fine on IDE, but it
hangs directly after the first reboot of the Windows setup if you try to
install it on a viostor drive. Windows Vista and higher never had any
problems in any version of qemu-kvm with any drive (IDE and viostor)...

I'm using the binaries of viostor-1.11.1, which I got from this site:
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/latest-windows-virtio-drivers

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Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Michael Tokarev]

virtio disk is entrely different story, unrelated to this issue.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Committed

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Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Aurelien Jarno]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Released
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
  Fix Released
Status in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Hello everyone,

  my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
  If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

  I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
  > qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
  it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

  I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib
  and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary
  graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[Bug Watch Updater]

** Changed in: fedora
       Status: Unknown => Won't Fix

** Changed in: fedora
   Importance: Unknown => High

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Title:
  Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Released
Status in qemu-kvm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in Fedora:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Hello everyone,

  my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image.
  If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

  I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
  > qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
  it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

  I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib
  and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary
  graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.

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