I have to correct myself. Booting from Windows XP/2003 after the first reboot of the Windows setup is still impossible (without booting from the install CD at first).
I tried both the command line used by libvirt and the following one: > qemu-kvm -hda thisfile -cdrom thatfile -boot c Also, I tested these command lines on qemu-kvm-0.12.4, qemu- kvm-0.12.4-r3 and qemu.git with SeaBIOS 0.5.1, 0.6.0 and seabios.git respectively. Windows always hangs at boot time. (But Windows Server 2008 R2 boots up. I assume Windows 7 and Vista will do fine as well.) -- Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Incomplete Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New 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.
