[Qemu-devel] For the curious... Host: WinXP Home, Guest: Win 2k3 SP1+RC2

[Nathan Kunkee]

Hi! For the curious, I was built QEMU from CVS sources and loaded the 
following over the weekend:
Host: Win XP Home, 512M RAM, SP2, 2.4 GHz
Guest: Win 2003, SP 1 + RC 2 (trial version download from Microsoft)
My command line was:
start /b "qemu" .\qemu.exe -L . -m 192 -cdrom x11-03905.iso -hda disk1.img 
-hdb disk2.img -localtime -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139 %1 %2

disk1.img and disk2.img are the same size and I created them with the built 
in fsutil program.

My first reboot after setting up the image reported a disk error after the 
BIOS check, and before any Windows stuff loaded. After a fresh start of 
QEMU, I have not seen that error again.

However, Windows Activation will not run. I had not specified the network 
card model during the initial install, and if there is a default, Windows 
did not find it. So, the network card was added after the system was already 
running, and the Activation program was waiting in the system tray. Whenever 
I run the Activation program, part of the window loads, and the guest system 
enters an infinite loop. Windows will eventually report this as STOP 0xEA on 
the cirrus driver, dump physical memory, and reboot.

In contrast, Firefox runs just fine on the guest system.

Later-
Nathan