A solution is to convert from vmdk to qcow2 and back working in VmWare with Windows images. Repeated Windows activation could be needed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496384 Title: Error 0x5D in Qemu for Windows Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The reason to use qemu for Windows is that the mouse in emulated Windows works well while it is unusable in qemu at Ubuntu. Alternative solution/bug is mouse usability in qemu for Linux. Well-known issue of error 0x5D when booting Win 7 x64 on qemu without kvm, marked as resolved at Linux. Used qemu for Windows downloaded from http://qemu.weilnetz.de/ Tested on qemu 2.3.94 64-bit and qemu 2.4.0 32-bit. Options : qemu-system-x86_64.exe -m 1536 -cpu qemu64,+nx,+pae,+mce,+cx8,+apic,+sep,+mtrr,+pge,+mca,+cmov,+pat,+pse36,+clflush,+acpi,+mmx,+fxsr,+sse,+sse2,+ss,+fxsr,+sse,+sse2,+ss,+de,+mtrr,+mca,+clflush win_7_work.qcow2 On qemu at Ubuntu with kvm Win7 x64 works ,but mouse is unusable as mentioned above. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1496384/+subscriptions
