[Qemu-discuss] Trouble starting various qemu-system-*.exe on Windows 7

[Steere, Andy]

Newbie problem: I'm having trouble getting qemu to run a mipsel Debian VM. I'm 
using qemu version 2.0.50 x86 which I downloaded from 
http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/qemu-w32-setup-20140529.exe. I also tried the 
qemu-w32-setup-20130619.exe from the same website with the same results.

When I run qemu-system-mipsel.exe there is no output or Windows event log 
entries. Here is the command line:
                qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta 
-hda debian_wheezy_mipsel_standard.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0"

When I start qemu-system-mipsel.exe without arguments there is no output or 
Windows event log entries.

The two Windows OS I have tried are the following:
1. Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 with Mingw installed
2. Win7 Pro SP1 x32 VM without Mingw installed.

I am able to get qemu to run a mipsel Debian in an Ubuntu 14.0 VM which would 
validate the vm and qcow files.

The Windows qemu installation appears to be good because I can get an i386 
Ubuntu version running on the Win7 host.

When I start the qemu-system-i386.exe without arguments the qemu window opens 
and eventually halts due to no boot image.

Curious I wrote a simple script to start all the qemu-system-*.exe files in the 
distribution without any arguments. The results were mixed. Some of the qemu 
exes start a qemu window. Others write to the event log and the last group does 
not write anything to stdout or stderr.

Here is an example event log entry:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event";>
<System>
  <Provider Name="Application Error" />
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
  <Level>2</Level>
  <Task>100</Task>
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-06-03T22:19:54.000000000Z" />
  <EventRecordID>55111</EventRecordID>
  <Channel>Application</Channel>
  <Computer>asteere.Peak8DDC.local</Computer>
  <Security />
  </System>
<EventData>
  <Data>qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>
  <Data>2.0.50.0</Data>
  <Data>5386bc6a</Data>
  <Data>qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>
  <Data>2.0.50.0</Data>
  <Data>5386bc6a</Data>
  <Data>40000015</Data>
  <Data>000fc8db</Data>
  <Data>17d4</Data>
  <Data>01cf7f79f09f3a0e</Data>
  <Data>c:\Program Files (x86)\qemu\qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>
  <Data>c:\Program Files (x86)\qemu\qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>
  <Data>2fa9e357-eb6d-11e3-bf2c-cc52af8aa3bb</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Thanks for your help,
Andy