Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-02 Thread Natalia Portillo
SCSI is not the problem as VirtualPC does not emulate it (Virtual Server does but not VPC up to 2007). Basically the problem can be more related to ACPI. Regards En Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:33:31 +0100, GUERRAZ Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Hello. Micro$oft's 64bits OSes are known t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-02 Thread Laurent Vivier
GUERRAZ Francois wrote: > Hello. > > Yes but if I understood well, you can't boot on the SCSI device because > of BIOS limitations right? > So the problem remains ... :) > > Maybe if you install GRUB and tell him to boot on SCSI.. :) GRUB uses BIOS... Laurent -- - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-01 Thread GUERRAZ Francois
Hello. Yes but if I understood well, you can't boot on the SCSI device because of BIOS limitations right? So the problem remains ... :) Maybe if you install GRUB and tell him to boot on SCSI.. :) --- François. Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 10:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > on x86, qem

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-01 Thread risc
on x86, qemu by default does not emulate a scsi device. if you look at my last set of postings, you will see a patch set for adding scsi controllers on demand. its got some code formatting issues, so i understand why it hasnt been merged as of yet. i intend to publish a new version in the next

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-01 Thread GUERRAZ Francois
Hello. Micro$oft's 64bits OSes are known to be problematic w/ kvm. I guess that the main problem w/ Qemu is that Microsoft Virtual Server can emulate a SCSI controller and Qemu cannot... I havent checked but I bet they installed their VM's with just SCSI drivers... Try to install IDE drivers from

[Qemu-devel] Using Microsoft-provided Windows images

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Shearer
I have been playing around with the demonstration Windows images downloadable from Microsoft just to see how hard it would be to use the OSs they provide. The images are designed for Microsoft Virtual Server, but can be successfully converted to qcow2 and vhdx using qemu-img. QEMU won't boot the im