Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1717708] [NEW] QEMU aarch64 can't run Windows ARM64 iso's

[Richard Henderson]

On 09/16/2017 11:22 AM, oscarbg wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Hi,
> recently Windows ARM64 ISOs have been posted on the internet..
> just checked with latest QEMU 2.10 release from 
> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/qemu-w64-setup-20170830.exe 
> "h:\qemu\qemu-system-aarch64.exe" -boot d -cdrom 
> h:\iso\16353.1000.170825-1423.RS_PRERELEASE_CLIENTPRO_OEMRET_ARM64FRE_ES-ES.ISO
>  -m 2048 -cpu cortex-a57 -smp 1 -machine virt
> seems no video output..

The first thing that I see missing here is a UEFI bios image.  While qemu
provides bios images for other targets, we do not ship one for arm64.

  https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/UEFIforQEMU

provides instructions for building or downloading the bios.  Using that, you
should at least get to a prompt on the serial console.

>From there, whether windows can boot with a serial console, or whether it
requires a graphics device, I don't know.


r~