Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU (no kvm) Win7 (64bit) boot error

[Stefan Weil]

Am 08.09.2012 02:48, schrieb Clemens Kolbitsch:
> Hi guys,
>
> I need to run Win7 64bit in Qemu without KVM support. I found a few
> messages concerning the "unsupported architecture" problem (Windows
> shows a BSOD with "STOP 0x0000005D ..." on boot), for example
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-03/msg01623.html
> or
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/92457
>
> but I don't think there was ever a solution to the problem - at least
> what is proposed does not work (I've tried stable and GIT versions).
>
> Since I have a decent background of modifying the Qemu internals, I'm
> more than happy to contribute to solving this issue, but I'm not sure
> if anyone is currently working on it (i.e., I don't want to start at 0
> in case someone is about to release a patch).
>
> Please let me know if there is already a know solution/workaround or
> whoever might be working on it, please ping me so we can sync.
>
> BTW, in case this is necessary, here are the details of what I
> need/what is not working:
>
> Qemu: current git-trunk,
>
> x86_64-softmmu$ ./qemu-system-x86_64 --version
> QEMU emulator version 1.2.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>
> host: 64bit, Ubuntu LTS12.04
>
> guest: 64bit Windows 7, no KVM possible
>
> Thanks!
> -Clemens

Hi Clemens,

AFAIK, nobody is working on this issue which exists for a long time now.
It would be great if you could find a solution to make QEMU without KVM
work with Windows guests.

Regards,

Stefan W.

PS: It's QEMU, not Qemu. I modified the subject in my reply :-)