and doesn't exist in qemu-2.5.1-1; the next version I have in Arch is qemu-2.6.0-1, which is the current one where the problem exists. So, something changed between 2.5 and 2.6
Sorry about the multiple posts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585008 Title: Windows 7 guests hang on bootup when qxl video is used Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I installed libvirt-bin and virt-manager on Ubuntu 16.04. I created a new VM for Windows 7, basically with default settings, which includes qxl video.. The Windows boot process hangs with the "Starting Windows" animation. CPU and disk I/O drop to zero, and it continues animating.... forever and ever... It never finishes booting. But it doesn't fully "hang" either: the animation continues to animate. As a workaround, I set the video mode to "Cirrus" and then Windows boots but it is slow and limited. And also apparently to be avoided: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered- harmful/ I can confirm it's only when qxl is enabled, because if I switch from Cirrus back to qxl, it hangs again - and going back to Cirrus again "fixes" the problem. This issue is also reported elsewhere: http://serverfault.com/questions/776406/windows-7-setup-hangs-at- starting-windows-using-proxmox-4-2 https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/win7-setup-hangs-in-proxmox- ve-4-2.27388/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1585008/+subscriptions
