[Qemu-devel] A bug of running existing windows xp from x86 64 linux host

[Jie Zhang]

Hi,

I cannot find a place to report qemu bug. So I write this email.

I'm trying to run an existing windows xp (32 bit) partition in qemu on a 
x86 64 bit linux host. I always got

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

when qemu starts.

There is no problem to run an existing windows xp in qemu on a x86 32 
bit linux host. There is no problem to install and run windows xp in 
qemu from a disk image file on x86 64 bit linux host.

Interestingly, I tried KVM and Virtualbox. I got the same error message 
for both of them. Since both KVM and Virtualbox use some modules from 
qemu, I guess the root cause is in qemu. So I first report this bug here.


Regards,
Jie