From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 8 fails to boot
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:11:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120301101111.GA12093@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16D28582-FE68-466E-ACA1-D33690584B4E@suse.de>
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:08:17AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 01.03.2012, at 10:54, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:46:37AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01.03.2012, at 09:00, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Am 01.03.2012 05:24, schrieb Jun Koi:
> >>>> anybody tested Qemu with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
> >>>>
> >>>> i tried the 32-bit ISO file with 1.0.1, with and without -enable-kvm,
> >>>> and Qemu reboots immediately after the first screen. that is no more
> >>>> than 10 seconds into the boot.
> >>>
> >>> Alex has posted patches that supposedly make AHCI boot work.
> >>
> >> Yes, but TCG mode also failed on me. I only tried the x64 version though.
> >>
> >>
> > Why AHCI is needed? I was able to install it on ide (qemu-kvm -cpu
> > host).
>
> It's not needed, it's just faster. Andreas was trying to say that I did run Windows 8, because I had it working with AHCI. :)
>
>
Ah, got it. Well, I confirm that it runs, but installing it was the least
pleasant computer experience I ever had, so why bother? :)
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 4:24 [Qemu-devel] Windows 8 fails to boot Jun Koi
2012-03-01 8:00 ` Andreas Färber
2012-03-01 9:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-01 9:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-03-01 9:54 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-03-01 10:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-01 10:11 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2012-03-01 10:15 ` Jun Koi
2012-03-01 10:22 ` Gleb Natapov
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