Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1715700] Re: Windows 7 guest won't boot on qemu 2.10 (works on 2.9)

[Laszlo Ersek \(Red Hat\)]

On 09/19/17 14:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> (2) Build the SeaBIOS CSM (CONFIG_CSM=y), and embed it into OVMF,
>> like described above. Then, boot Windows 7 in *UEFI Mode*.
> 
>> Option #1 and option #2 no longer work because the CSM infrastructure
>> in edk2 needs to be able to write 0xc0000.
> 
> Well, option #2 works for me.
> 

Correct, and that's because edk2 commit db27e9f3d8f0 fixed the PAM
register offsets for Q35, in the CSM platform support. At that time we
missed that the same should be done in the VBE Shim as well.

I'm going to do it for the VBE Shim now.

(I'm pretty sure UEFI Windows 7 boots fine with the VBE Shim right now,
on QEMU 2.10, if the machine type is i440fx, not q35.)

Thanks for the help!
Laszlo

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Title:
  Windows 7 guest won't boot on qemu 2.10 (works on 2.9)

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Qemu version: 2.10 stable.
  Guest: Windows 7 SP1 x64, virtio drivers are already installed in the guest.
  Command line:
  qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -nodefaults \
      -nodefconfig \
      -machine type=q35,accel=kvm \
      -enable-kvm \
      -cpu host \
      -m 2048 \
      -vga virtio \
      -boot menu=on \
      -smbios file=/path/dmidecode_BIOS.bin \
      -acpitable file=/path/acpi_slic.bin \
      -bios /path/OVMF_CODE.fd \
      -net none \
      -drive if=virtio,media=disk,file=/media/win7.qcow2 \
      -device pcie-root-port \
      -device ich9-usb-ehci1 \
      -device ich9-usb-uhci1 \
      -device ich9-usb-uhci2 \
      -device ich9-usb-uhci3

  Windows hangs at boot with waving flag screen (flag doesn't freeze,
  keeps waving indefinitely). Same command line boots fine with Qemu
  2.9. I tried changing machine type to pc-q35-2.9 - same result.

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