[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1591724] Re: Windows 7 installation DVD can't boot in qemu 2.6.0/OVMF

[Mary Sherman]

Fails on my machine, even with the HEAD of master as of today
(5d3217340adcb6c4f0e4af5d2b865331eb2ff63d).

Simplest configuration:

    cp $MY_BIOS $MY_BIOS_TMP; ./qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=$MY_BIOS \
      -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=$MY_BIOS_TMP \
      -enable-kvm \
      -m 3072 \
      -cpu host,kvm=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4 \
      -cdrom $MY_WINDOWS_CD
    ;

Hangs on "Starting Windows".

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Title:
  Windows 7 installation DVD can't boot in qemu 2.6.0/OVMF

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  With Qemu 2.5.50 (compiled from git some time ago) I can boot Windows 7 x64 
installation DVD as follows:
  ~/code/qemu-v2/bin/slic-v2/native/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -machine type=pc,accel=kvm \
      -enable-kvm \
      -cpu host \
      -m 2048 \
      -vga cirrus \
      -boot d \
      -drive if=pflash,file=/vms/ovmf_x64_firstrun.bin,format=raw \
      -cdrom /vms/win7_sp1.iso \
      -monitor stdio

  This bug suggests different vga options
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1581936. Here's the behaviours
  I'm getting with 2.6.0:

  std - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely
  cirrus - at "Starting Windows" wasps of light freeze before assembling into a 
flag
  qxl - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely
  virtio - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely

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