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

[tekditt]

In qemu-kvm-0.12.5-r1 Windows XP/2003 is booting fine on IDE, but it
hangs directly after the first reboot of the Windows setup if you try to
install it on a viostor drive. Windows Vista and higher never had any
problems in any version of qemu-kvm with any drive (IDE and viostor)...

I'm using the binaries of viostor-1.11.1, which I got from this site:
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/latest-windows-virtio-drivers

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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: Fix Released
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: Fix Released
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.