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Le Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:59:55 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> For the next week or so I'm forced to leave my Linux behind and be stuck
> with Windows XP (it's funny using Linux for most of the time and after
> switching temporarily to XP I'm already missing my Linux :-) )
> 
> Anyway, I downloaded the qemu daily from Free OS Zoo (thanks guys) and I
> have small problem..
> 
> No matter what I type at the qemu parameter - I get nothing, it's just
> bounces 1 line (I'm using the 19/12 snapshot) and returns to command
> prompt. I tried to use the qemumenu, but that doesn't seem to help...
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I have XP Pro SP2...
> 
> Here's the output (my Windows 2000 guest is in a bootable DVD which I
> tested booting on qmeu Linux):
> 
> [Mon 12/20/2004  1:55:11.68]   qemu.exe -L "\Qemu\bios" -m 128 -hda
> "M:\Qemu\win 2k.img" -cdrom "d:\" -boot d -enable-audio -localtime Press
> any key to continue . . .
> M:\Qemu>
> 

The bios path looks strange to me, like missing drive letter or useless
leading backslash. Second thing could be your -cdrom param, you are trying
to use a real device and that's not supported on windows.