Thanks! Using the OVMF provided with the Ubuntu 16.04 packages solved the issue.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629282 Title: QEMU (still) hangs on Windows 7 install Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: I'm trying to install Windows 7 as guest, but the machine still hangs (more precisely, the windows icon keeps flashing, but never goes past this stage). I think this is a different bug from https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1581936. Specifically, its happens when the OVMF BIOS is used, and I can't find any workaround (in the above bug, by changing the display, the installation doesn't hang). The most minimal commandline that reproduces the issue is (generic format): $QEMU_BINARY \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=$QEMU_BIOS \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=$QEMU_BIOS_TMP \ -enable-kvm \ -m $QEMU_MEMORY \ -display std \ -cpu host,kvm=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4 \ -cdrom $QEMU_WINDOWS_7_CD \ ; I'm using `OVMF_15214.fd` as BIOS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1629282/+subscriptions
