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

[Clemens Kolbitsch]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Hi Stefan,

thanks for the info. I'll work on it then - hopefully I can come back
with a patch soon!

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

hehe, old habbit :) I'll try to remember - but why is the ML then
called "Qemu-devel" ? ;)

-Clemens