Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem installing WIndows

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

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