Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Ben Taylor]

---- Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote: 
> no
> 
> the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
> 
> On 6/9/06, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > --- "Nigel J. Terry" <nigel@nigelterry.net> a écrit :
> > > >
> > > Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed.
> > > You also need 512M of ram and the ability to accept that your PC will
> > > BSOD often :-)
> > >
> > > I'll stick with FC5
> > >
> > > Nigel
> > >
> > You could try -no-acpi switch perhaps.
> > ReactOS has problems with the ACPI features too.
> >
> >

Does the ACPI patch that was posted a couple of weeks ago for
Solaris/X86 support help at all?

Ben

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Ben Taylor wrote:

> Does the ACPI patch that was posted a couple of weeks ago for
> Solaris/X86 support help at all?

That patch would be much easier to test if someone were to provide a 
pre-compiled ACPI blob. (I'd love to test it).

regards,
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Nigel J. Terry]

Christian MICHON wrote:
> don't you need special acpi features inside qemu/bios, otherwise the iso
> would not boot ?
>
> On 6/8/06, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi people,
>>
>> Microsoft has released a free download ISO of Windows Vista Beta 2.
>> This Beta will expire at July 1st 2007.
>>
>> Anyone who want to download it (3.3 GB for 32 bit version, 4.4 GB for
>> 64 bit version) can go to:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx
>>
>> It might be fun to test it :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hetz
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Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed. 
You also need 512M of ram and the ability to accept that your PC will 
BSOD often :-)

I'll stick with FC5

Nigel

RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Sylvain Petreolle]

--- "Nigel J. Terry" <nigel@nigelterry.net> a écrit :
> >
> Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed. 
> You also need 512M of ram and the ability to accept that your PC will 
> BSOD often :-)
> 
> I'll stick with FC5
> 
> Nigel
> 
You could try -no-acpi switch perhaps.
ReactOS has problems with the ACPI features too.


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Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Christian MICHON]

no

the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.

On 6/9/06, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> --- "Nigel J. Terry" <nigel@nigelterry.net> a écrit :
> > >
> > Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed.
> > You also need 512M of ram and the ability to accept that your PC will
> > BSOD often :-)
> >
> > I'll stick with FC5
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> You could try -no-acpi switch perhaps.
> ReactOS has problems with the ACPI features too.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
> --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
> Windows is proprietary
>  Run your favorite apps with free ReactOS : http://www.reactos.org
> Listen to free Music: http://www.jamendo.com
>
>
>
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Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Christian MICHON]

yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for win32/mingw
which are not yet inside the tar.bz2

I can see vista booting now...

On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> no
>
> the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
>

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Christian MICHON]

I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image.

Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw
home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb

Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can
we get past it ? suggestions are welcome

On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for win32/mingw
> which are not yet inside the tar.bz2
>
> I can see vista booting now...
>
> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > no
> >
> > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
> >
>


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Christian

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Natalia Portillo]

Tried to format the qcow with another windows version but vista/ 
longhorn?

Vista is well known for their problems on formatting step with a  
variety of emulators.
In their developer's page they say to format the virtual disk first  
with XP for use of vista under VPC.

El 09/06/2006, a las 16:35, Christian MICHON escribió:

> I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image.
>
> Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw
> home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb
>
> Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can
> we get past it ? suggestions are welcome
>
> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for  
>> win32/mingw
>> which are not yet inside the tar.bz2
>>
>> I can see vista booting now...
>>
>> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > no
>> >
>> > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
>> >
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Christian
>
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Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Christian MICHON]

ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitation on files
bigger than 2Gb, since "gcc -dumpspecs" does not show anything
related to -m64, which I'd expect to have to add to CFLAGS to
be able to use iso or qcow images bigger than 2Gb.

Apparently, experimental build of cygwin may carry 64 bits capable
gcc+binutils (I'll try that too)

On 6/9/06, Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com> wrote:
> Tried to format the qcow with another windows version but vista/
> longhorn?
>
> Vista is well known for their problems on formatting step with a
> variety of emulators.
> In their developer's page they say to format the virtual disk first
> with XP for use of vista under VPC.
>
> El 09/06/2006, a las 16:35, Christian MICHON escribió:
>
> > I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image.
> >
> > Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw
> > home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb
> >
> > Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can
> > we get past it ? suggestions are welcome
> >
> > On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for
> >> win32/mingw
> >> which are not yet inside the tar.bz2
> >>
> >> I can see vista booting now...
> >>
> >> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > no
> >> >
> >> > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christian
> >
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Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[Natalia Portillo]

I used a precompiled binary that is on the google for installing a  
full opensuse 10 and made a 7gb qcow with no problem at all.

However,
try to do a dd=/dev/zero to grow the qcow first or so.

just, are you in NTFS xD?
El 09/06/2006, a las 21:41, Christian MICHON escribió:

> ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitation on  
> files
> bigger than 2Gb, since "gcc -dumpspecs" does not show anything
> related to -m64, which I'd expect to have to add to CFLAGS to
> be able to use iso or qcow images bigger than 2Gb.
>
> Apparently, experimental build of cygwin may carry 64 bits capable
> gcc+binutils (I'll try that too)
>
> On 6/9/06, Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com> wrote:
>> Tried to format the qcow with another windows version but vista/
>> longhorn?
>>
>> Vista is well known for their problems on formatting step with a
>> variety of emulators.
>> In their developer's page they say to format the virtual disk first
>> with XP for use of vista under VPC.
>>
>> El 09/06/2006, a las 16:35, Christian MICHON escribió:
>>
>> > I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image.
>> >
>> > Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw
>> > home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb
>> >
>> > Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can
>> > we get past it ? suggestions are welcome
>> >
>> > On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for
>> >> win32/mingw
>> >> which are not yet inside the tar.bz2
>> >>
>> >> I can see vista booting now...
>> >>
>> >> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > no
>> >> >
>> >> > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Christian
>> >
>> >
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Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

[René Korthaus]

On Mac OS X host Windows XP does refuse to install on a qcow image  
but raw images work.
I haven't tried, but I think it's the same with Vista. Installing in  
a raw image works fine.

Am 09.06.2006 um 22:41 schrieb Christian MICHON:

> ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitation on  
> files
> bigger than 2Gb, since "gcc -dumpspecs" does not show anything
> related to -m64, which I'd expect to have to add to CFLAGS to
> be able to use iso or qcow images bigger than 2Gb.
>
> Apparently, experimental build of cygwin may carry 64 bits capable
> gcc+binutils (I'll try that too)
>
> On 6/9/06, Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com> wrote:
>> Tried to format the qcow with another windows version but vista/
>> longhorn?
>>
>> Vista is well known for their problems on formatting step with a
>> variety of emulators.
>> In their developer's page they say to format the virtual disk first
>> with XP for use of vista under VPC.
>>
>> El 09/06/2006, a las 16:35, Christian MICHON escribió:
>>
>> > I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image.
>> >
>> > Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw
>> > home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb
>> >
>> > Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can
>> > we get past it ? suggestions are welcome
>> >
>> > On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for
>> >> win32/mingw
>> >> which are not yet inside the tar.bz2
>> >>
>> >> I can see vista booting now...
>> >>
>> >> On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > no
>> >> >
>> >> > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Christian
>> >
>> >
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