Re: [Qemu-devel] Two issues in using Windows XP SP2 as host system

[CR]

Hello,

I also had the problem with a 0kb RAW-Image. And qemu didn't start with
this file under windows as host.
The problem seems to be that images >2GB don't work under Qemu-Windows.
Some time ago I read theres a problem with mingw with files >2GB. Maybe
that's the cause.

Also qcow images don't work under windows (here), even with filesize <2GB.

Try using an raw image <2GB and see if it works. It does here.
Hope it helps.

Carsten

> Sorry for contributing nothing but bug reports (or very possibly
> reports on ways in which my systme isn't configured properly):
>
> 1. It was really useful to learn that "under WindowsXP, as well as
> invoking qemu with --enable-audio, it's necessary to go to Control
> panel -> Add/Remove Hardware and manually add the SoundBlaster 16."
> Unfortunately, when I did this I got a ""This device cannot start
> (Code 10)" error. Googling revealed this to be fairly common, and not
> just with the SoundBlaster 16 -- any wonder why I very much want to
> install Linux? -- but Googling revealed no workarounds that seemed to
> apply to this situation.
>
> 2. I downloaded and installed the latest Qemu win32 daily (20041124 )
> in order to take advantage of the work that's been done with
> qemu-img.exe and QEMUMenu.bat. When I start QEMUMenu.bat I am given
> the choice to [C]reate Image File, which executes as
>
> qemu0img.exe create -f "raw" "MEPIS.img" "3000M"
> Formating 'MEPIS.img' , fmt=raw, size=3072000 kB
>
> Windows Explorer shows the resulting image as 0 kb and when I choose
> to boot Qemu using the image, I get
>
> Starting C:\Program Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img ...
>
> qemu.exe -L "Program Files\Qemu\bios\" -m 128 -hda "C:\Program
> Files\Qemu\MEPIS.img" -enable-audio -localtime
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> and then the command prompt window closes and nothing happens.
>
> Again, I appreciate everyone's patience and responsiveness. For what
> it's worth, the document I've been keeping on how to install Linux on
> a Windows box, the one I hope to publish on the web at some point,
> keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter as you make improvements
> to your amazing software.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
>
>
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