Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: importing VMWare image

[Nardmann, Heiko]

Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 10:14 schrieb Adam Bradley:
> Yves Trudeau wrote:
> > Filip Navara a écrit :
> >> Yves Trudeau wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>    I am trying to use a VMWare Win2k image in Qemu-0.7.1.  I imported
> >>> the image with qemu-img successfully but when I lauch qemu, I have
> >>> the first part (in text mode) of the win2k boot with the progress bar
> >>> but as soon as it attempt to switch to graphic mode, qemu freezes.  I
> >>> tried "--stdvga" and booted win2k in safe-mode with no result.  Is
> >>> there someone who successfully imported a VMWare image? Any hint will
> >>> be appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Yves
> >>
> >> The hardware emulated by QEMU and VMware is different. You might want
> >> to try running the image in VMware and reinstalling "Standard IDE
> >> driver" instead of the one that is used and then importing the image.
> >>
> >> - Filip
> >
> > I tried all the "standard" drivers I could find without success, still
> > the same problem.  I want to import this vmware image because I have a
> > software, Mindmanager, that runs well under vmware but not under Qemu,
> > altought the installation raises no error.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> How about a seperate hardware profile with almost everything disabled.
> Could ACPI be causing you problems?  If so, it might be time to switch
> HALs.
> Adam
>

I have a similar problem with a Windows XP image. I choose "Abgesicherter 
Modus" (translation "Safe Mode" ?) but the last thing I see is something 
about agp440.sys.
I already use '-std-vga' and have tried '-isa', too, but without luck.
Is this issue solved now?
I have thought that Windows does some hardware autodetection at startup?

I am going to change some Windows settings while running the image inside 
VMware and will come back then.

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