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Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Windows Server 2003 Standard (x86-64) on a
> machine which has AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. I compiled and installed
> the qemu from source tarball using below commands:
>
>   root:~# su - windows
>   windows:~$ mkdir qemu; cd qemu
>   windows:~/qemu$ wget http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-0.9.1.tar.gz
>   windows:~/qemu$ tar -zxf qemu-0.9.1.tar.gz; cd qemu-0.9.1
>   windows:~/qemu/qemu-0.9.1$ ./configure --prefix=/home/windows/qemu
>   windows:~/qemu/qemu-0.9.1$ make && make install
>
> And then I create the appropriate disk images.
>
>   windows:~$ dd of=/home/windows/disk-raw-20g.img \
>   > bs=1024 seek=$[1024 * 1024 * 20] count=0
>   windows:~$ qemu/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow disk-qcow-20g.img 20G
>   windows:~$ qemu/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk-qcow2-20g.img 20G
>
> When I try to boot Windows Server ISO image
>
>   root:~# /home/windows/qemu/bin/qemu -boot d \
>   > -cdrom /home/windows/windows-server-2003-standard-x86-64-sp2.iso \
>   > -hda /home/windows/disk-qcow-20g.img \
>   > -localtime -m 512 -L /home/windows/qemu/share/qemu
>
> qemu complains that
>
>   QEMU BIOS - build: 02/08/07
>   $Revision: 1.174 $ $Date: 2006/10/17 16:48:05 $
>   Options: apmbios pcibios eltorito rombios32
>
>   ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (20480 MBytes)
>   ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 Cd-Rom/Dvd-Rom
>
>   CDROM boot failure code : 0004
>   Boot from Cd-Rom failed
>   FATAL: Could not read the boot disk
>
> I also tried below combinations:
>
>   1. -cdrom /dev/scd0
>   

In theory, this should succeed, but I've experienced fickelness when 
installing Windows and using this sort of command.  I never have tracked 
it down because just dd'ing the ISO has always worked for me.  I assume 
some of the "host device" support in QEMU is too smart for its own good.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori