Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem installing WIndows

[Doctor Bill <docbill@gmail.com>]

In your original message, you mentioned setup had finished.  One thing
I can recommend trying on your second attempt is to make sure you
create more than one user account when prompted.  XP Pro seems to
behave differently depending on if there is one or more than one
accounts.

I actually had the exact same problem on a real PC.  I did not have
time to try and resolve thi problem, so I ended up installing XP Home
edition on that particular computer.

Bill


On 7/27/05, Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
> Christian MICHON wrote:
> > 1) have you tried using qemu-img instead of dd ?
> >    (I usually use the qcow format for windows guests. 2G should be ok.
> >     "qemu-img create -f qcow hd.img 2G" )
> 
> I'm trying that now.
> 
> > 2) you do not mention bios path, memory of vm and boot sequence.
> >   I suggest you add at least the "-boot d". By default, 128M will be used
> >   for the vm (sufficient for XP). Make sure your debian box has plenty of
> >   RAM (512M is good).
> 
> I mentioned the command line in my original post to the thread.
> 
> qemu -boot c -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda hd.img
> 
> So it's using 128MB, and my box does indeed have 512MB.
> 
> > 3) is your qemu optimized? and which version of gcc is used?
> 
> I have had a look in the Debian config.  The only non-standard configure
> option is --enable-slirp.  Debian compiles qemu with -Wall -O2 -g
> -fno-strict-aliasing.  Not sure what gcc was used, but probably 3.3.
> 
> Antony
> 
> 
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