----- Original Message ----- From: "Jie Zhang" <address@hidden>
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.
Maybe, You should show qemu command line first?
I use the following command line:
sudo qemu -hda /dev/sda -m 512
I can see the grub, but cannot boot into windows xp because of the
disk read error. It's weird that the same command line works on my
AMD64 pc, although qemu crashed when I passed "-d in_asm" to it.
Hmm. The only error I could expect in this place is "inaccesible boot
device" (0x2b, afair)
If your host is x86_64, try:
$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sda -m 512