From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6tOi-0002CR-I2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:46:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6tOg-0004bZ-ON for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:46:00 -0400 Received: from blade3.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.19]:1869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6tOg-0004bH-Ha for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:45:58 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.61] ([151.42.46.85]) by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x6 #31988) with ESMTPSA id <01OD0EKD1RLSKZGXH4@mx.isti.cnr.it> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:45:40 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:45:40 +0100 From: Reeted Message-id: <4F5D4734.7050806@shiftmail.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Windows boot is waiting for keypress List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hello, I am virtualizing a Windows 2000 machine (bit-by-bit copy of physical machine). It apparently works fine except for one strange thing: windows 2000 stops at the black screen (first step of boot) where it asks me if I want to load Windows 2000 or previous operating system. When the machine was physical there was a short timeout in that screen, and then it would proceed with the default choice of windows 2000, but in qemu it waits forever like if I pressed a key to interrupt the timeout. Note that there is another bootloader *before* that one (it chainloads the windows bootloader), and that one also has a timeout which can be interrupted with a keypress, but that one does not show the problem, i.e. goes ahead after its timeout without my need to press key. That's a problem because I cannot really start the Windows VM from linux scripting as it stops at boot. Sending a keypress to a VM programmatically is not so easy methinks... or do you know how to do that? This is with qemu-kvm 1.0 Thanks for any idea