[Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Antony T Curtis]

Ok, a bit of background... I am running QEMU on FreeBSD, and I have
patched it so that it can use devices.

I have made the cow image by the following command
$ qemu-mkcow -f /dev/ad0 ad0.cow

And then booting the hard drive with
$ qemu -pci -hdachs 58140,16,63 ad0.cow

I boot the WinXP partition choosing Safe Mode Command prompt boot and it
proceeds to boot until it loads the agp440.sys driver, where it halts at
EIP=804e945e (which is a 0xeb 0xfe , jmp $-2 infinite loop)

Has anyone got any further than that?

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Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Sebastien Bechet]

Le lun 31/05/2004 à 12:18, Antony T Curtis a écrit :
> I boot the WinXP partition choosing Safe Mode Command prompt boot and it
> proceeds to boot until it loads the agp440.sys driver, where it halts at
> EIP=804e945e (which is a 0xeb 0xfe , jmp $-2 infinite loop)
Could you try again removing agp440.sys driver first in
ControlPanel/Services or directly in HKLM ? Dono if it come from
agp440.sys or the next driver. i have the same problem but not time to
test it for now.

I'm looking for tools to directly modify file registry without booting
windows. Especialy to modify hardware configuration...


Thank you.

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Sebastien Bechet <s.bechet@av7.net>
av7.net

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

> And then booting the hard drive with
> $ qemu -pci -hdachs 58140,16,63 ad0.cow

Reboot without the -pci
PCI support at the moment is quite experimental and crashes all win32 
based OS's (2K, XP, 2003, Longhorn)

Hetz

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Sebastien Bechet]

31/05/2004@13:47, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote :
> Reboot without the -pci

I have done this test before PCI integration. It is another problem.



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Sebastien Bechet <s.bechet@av7.net>
av7.net

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Antony T Curtis]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 12:47, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > And then booting the hard drive with
> > $ qemu -pci -hdachs 58140,16,63 ad0.cow
> 
> Reboot without the -pci
> PCI support at the moment is quite experimental and crashes all win32 
> based OS's (2K, XP, 2003, Longhorn)

Even without the -pci option, it halts at the same point.
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Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

> Even without the -pci option, it halts at the same point.

Have you tried a fresh install of XP? I have installed XP and updated it 
to SP 1a and both versions ran fine.

- Bartosz

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Antony T Curtis]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 13:38, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> > Even without the -pci option, it halts at the same point.
> 
> Have you tried a fresh install of XP? I have installed XP and updated it 
> to SP 1a and both versions ran fine.

That involves finding the XP Pro install CD... I have found the retail
box but the cd is not in it :-(
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Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Sebastien Bechet]

Hello,

Le lun 31/05/2004 à 12:18, Antony T Curtis a écrit :
> I boot the WinXP partition choosing Safe Mode Command prompt boot and it
> proceeds to boot until it loads the agp440.sys driver, where it halts at
> EIP=804e945e (which is a 0xeb 0xfe , jmp $-2 infinite loop)

This is not agp440.sys, it can be disabled using Recovery Console but
qemu (and qemu console) continue to hang.

how to do that :
listsvc # list of drivers loaded on startup
disable agp440 # disable AGP440
exit # reboot

In another idea, i tried to convert W2K qemu default isa install to qemu
w/ pci enabling plugplay, PCI and PCIIde drivers : but ... not working
maybe I forget to enable something ?

Bye.


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Sebastien Bechet <s.bechet@av7.net>
av7.net

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Antony T Curtis]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:27, Sebastien Bechet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le lun 31/05/2004 à 12:18, Antony T Curtis a écrit :
> > I boot the WinXP partition choosing Safe Mode Command prompt boot and it
> > proceeds to boot until it loads the agp440.sys driver, where it halts at
> > EIP=804e945e (which is a 0xeb 0xfe , jmp $-2 infinite loop)
> 
> This is not agp440.sys, it can be disabled using Recovery Console but
> qemu (and qemu console) continue to hang.
> 
> how to do that :
> listsvc # list of drivers loaded on startup
> disable agp440 # disable AGP440
> exit # reboot

Curiously enough... I have successfully installed XP Pro under QEMU...
But I cannot boot my existing WinXP Partition. Maybe it's the driver
which loads after the agp440 driver?

> In another idea, i tried to convert W2K qemu default isa install to qemu
> w/ pci enabling plugplay, PCI and PCIIde drivers : but ... not working
> maybe I forget to enable something ?

I am going to try the 'turtle' interpreter emulator - since it is also
reportedly capable of booting OS/2 now... There must be some aspect of
the current translator which is incomplete which affects these things.
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Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

[OT] Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Antony T Curtis wrote:
> I am going to try the 'turtle' interpreter emulator - since it is also
> reportedly capable of booting OS/2 now... There must be some aspect of
> the current translator which is incomplete which affects these things.

What is the home page of that project?

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to run Windows XP Pro

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Le mardi 15 Juin 2004 23:26, Antony T Curtis a écrit :
> Curiously enough... I have successfully installed XP Pro under QEMU...
> But I cannot boot my existing WinXP Partition. Maybe it's the driver
> which loads after the agp440 driver?

I can report the same with "qemu -pci -cirrusvga -user-net" Monday CVS 
version. WinXP Stage 1 and Stage 2 installation goes well. But WinXP finally 
does not boot and segfauts. Screenshot:
http://www.poure.com/screenshots/qemu_temp_5.png

Cheers,
Jean-Michel