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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:31:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <521D1AB0.1070904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521D0B84.8040301@rdsoftware.de>

Il 27/08/2013 22:26, Erik Rull ha scritto:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> which BIOS is selected by default?

QEMU only ships with SeaBIOS.

> It's more a guess, there must be a
> change between 1.2.0 and 1.6.0 that prevents a simple Windows XP from
> booting completely, if the guest HDD image is placed on a SSD. On a
> rotating HDD (with the same commandline except the path to the image) it
> boots successfully. The only difference is the speed of the disk access.

It could be a real difference, actually.  An unexpectedly fast disk
might screw a sloppy driver.  IIRC you're not the first person reporting
it.  Stefan, do you think using block throttling could fix it (with some
trial and error)?

> I will try an alternative BIOS, maybe this fixes it, if not I will try
> to do some regression tests, first trying 1.4.0.

This could help.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-27 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-26  9:52 [Qemu-devel] Boot Problems Windows XP guest Erik Rull
2013-08-27  7:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-27 20:26   ` Erik Rull
2013-08-27 21:31     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-27 21:37       ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-28  8:05         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 11:05         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28  7:50       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-28  9:07         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:14           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:34             ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:41               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 13:51                 ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 13:59                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 14:05                     ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 14:05                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-28 14:26                         ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 18:21                           ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 18:40                             ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-28 19:22                               ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29  7:53                                 ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29  9:25                                   ` Benoît Canet
2013-08-29 14:51                                     ` Erik Rull
2013-08-29 14:55                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-29 15:31                                         ` Erik Rull
2013-08-28 13:19           ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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