[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

Long time no post, i tried to install Win2k3 through RIS/PXE this time.
I still get the same error at boot time: "A disk read error occurred.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart".

Neither the Win2k3 install source nor the VirtIO drivers are defective.
Something's just wrong with QEMU.

Currently qemu.git is able to compile itself properly, so I'll check it
out. Without libvirt (because it can't parse "qemu-kvm-devel" as version
string :/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609741 )

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #609741
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609741

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Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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Status in QEMU: Incomplete
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New
Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the 
image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the 
boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). 
It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i 
don't think it should be an issue.