[Qemu-devel] [Bug 586175] Re: Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot

[tekditt]

P.S.: I just read the link posted by Michael.

I have also to mention that this boot problem not only appears by using
the -drive parameter, even the good old -hda got this bug.

I've also tried to correct some funny offsets in the NTFS header, but
all offsets were already set to the right values. And it doesn't boot at
all.

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Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175
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Status in QEMU: Incomplete
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in Debian GNU/Linux: Fix Released
Status in Fedora: Unknown

Bug description:
Hello everyone,

my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the 
image.
If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the 
boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid.

I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple
> qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on
it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..."

I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). 
It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i 
don't think it should be an issue.