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

[Andreas Jacob]

I run into the same problem, but the workaround regarding editing the
number of heads in the ntfs partition boot sector did it for me. Little
Howto:

Asume: A raw complete harddisc image within a bootable NTFS partition
with XP or 2k3 on it

Incident: when using these image with kvm based qemu, the system wan't
boot anymore

solution:

1) set up the whole discimage as a loop device
- losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/my/diskimage.raw

2) let kpartx create drive mappings for all partitions within the loop device
- kpartx -a /dev/loop0

3) you need to know on which partition your NTFS partition resides
- fdisk -l /dev/loop0

4) use the right partition mapping with hex-edit (eg. partition 1)
- hexedit /dev/mapper/loop0p1

5) look on hex position 0x1a, for the count of heads NTFS asumes
- in hexedit type enter and then 1A

6) change the value to 0xFF 
- in hexedit type FF

7) save and exit hexedit
- press Ctrl+X to end 

8) remove the partition mappings
- kpartx -d /dev/loop0

9) remove loop device
- losetup -d /dev/loop0

Hope that helps

Cheers Andreas

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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 “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: New
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.