Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Server 2003 SP1 problems

[Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh@gmail.com>]

I'm testing it right now, and I'll report later..

One thing though, with how much RAM did you try to use QEMU? if you
have 512MB on your host (or more), could you retry QEMU with -m 256?

Thanks,
Hetz

On 4/13/05, Info <info@geodb.org> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have tested the installation of our Open Licensed
> Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition as a guest on a WinXP
> SP2 and Gentoo 2005.0 host. I used the CVS version of QEMU
> from 12.4.2005. KQEMU is from Fabrice web site. Here
> follows my experiences.
> 
> QEMU    | Installation | Installation
>          | Windows 2003 | Service Pack 1
> --------+--------------+---------------
> SoftMMU | OK           | FAIL 1)
> KQEMU   | FAIL 2)      | OK/FAIL 3)
> 
> 1) During installation of the SP1 I get the error "RUNDLL:
> Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\syadm.cpl".
> 
> 2) During loading the Windows 2003 Setup, QEMU terminate
> with a segmentation fault.
> 
> 3) If I use the installation done with SoftMMU und install
> the SP1, I don't get the error from 1).
> 
> But the big problem is:
> 
> As soon as SP1 has been installed and I connect the
> Windows 2003 guest to the windows update server, it
> freezes, mouse and keyboard input stopped. If I wait long
> enough, Windows 2003 restarts it self, telling it has been
> recovered from a server failure. When freezed, the QEMU is
> using 100% CPU time from the host and under Linux host, I
> loose the keyboard output in the console (have to blindly
> exit and login again).
> 
> Has anybody successfully installed Windows Server 2003
> with Service Pack 1 ?
> 
> Any suggestion ?
> 
> Andreas
> 
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