[Qemu-devel] Using Qemu on OS X

[Ashish Naik]

I downloaded and installed Qemu 0.6.0

I have a WinXP Pro CD which is not a bootable one but copy of i386 folder. I created an image using dd command as described on site Emuscene.

When I try to run qemu using command qemu -hda /Users/ashishn/winxppro.img  -boot d -m 128 an error is displayed as 

Ata 0 master : QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (656 Mbytes)
ata0 slave:Unknown device
ata1 master :QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
ata1 slave : Unknown Device

CDROM boot failure code : 0003
Boot from CD-Rom failed
FATAL:Could not read the boot disk

Emuscene article mentioned command as qemu -hda /Users/pete/qemuharddisk.img -cdrom /Users/pete/freedoslivecd.img -boot d -m 64 -enable-audio -user-net –localtime

One thing I didn’t understand is that why do I need to give –cdrom option along with –had!!!

How do I resolve this?

Cheers,
Ashish
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