Re: [Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 64linux host

[Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>]

Sergey Bychkov wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jie Zhang" <jie.zhang@analog.com>
>>>> I'm trying to run an existing windows xp (32 bit) partition in qemu 
>>>> on a x86 64 bit linux host. I always got
>>>>
>>>> A disk read error occurred
>>>> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
>>>>
>>>> when qemu starts.
>>>
>>> Maybe, You should show qemu command line first?
>>>
>> I use the following command line:
>>
>> sudo qemu -hda /dev/sda -m 512
>>
>> I can see the grub, but cannot boot into windows xp because of the 
>> disk read error. It's weird that the same command line works on my 
>> AMD64 pc, although qemu crashed when I passed "-d in_asm" to it.
> 
> Hmm. The only error I could expect in this place is "inaccesible boot 
> device" (0x2b, afair)
> 
> If your host is x86_64, try:
> 
> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sda -m 512
> 
I tried before. I got the same error.


Jie