Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Ben Taylor wrote: Does the ACPI patch that was posted a couple of weeks ago for Solaris/X86 support help at all? That patch would be much easier to test if someone were to provide a pre-compiled ACPI blob. (I'd love to test it). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread René Korthaus
On Mac OS X host Windows XP does refuse to install on a qcow image but raw images work. I haven't tried, but I think it's the same with Vista. Installing in a raw image works fine. Am 09.06.2006 um 22:41 schrieb Christian MICHON: ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitati

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Natalia Portillo
I used a precompiled binary that is on the google for installing a full opensuse 10 and made a 7gb qcow with no problem at all. However, try to do a dd=/dev/zero to grow the qcow first or so. just, are you in NTFS xD? El 09/06/2006, a las 21:41, Christian MICHON escribió: ok, I'll try that. B

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Christian MICHON
ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitation on files bigger than 2Gb, since "gcc -dumpspecs" does not show anything related to -m64, which I'd expect to have to add to CFLAGS to be able to use iso or qcow images bigger than 2Gb. Apparently, experimental build of cygwin may carr

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Natalia Portillo
Tried to format the qcow with another windows version but vista/ longhorn? Vista is well known for their problems on formatting step with a variety of emulators. In their developer's page they say to format the virtual disk first with XP for use of vista under VPC. El 09/06/2006, a las 16:

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Ben Taylor
Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no > > the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot. > > On 6/9/06, Sylvain Petreolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "Nigel J. Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > > > Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Christian MICHON
I can't go any further than formatting an 8Gb qcow image. Vista complains it can't use it. I'm using a win32/mingw home-made compilation. Vista needs at least 6.7Gb Is this a 64 bits limitation on win32/mingw ? how can we get past it ? suggestions are welcome On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Christian MICHON
yesterday's snapshot of cvs is ok, minus the _commit fixes for win32/mingw which are not yet inside the tar.bz2 I can see vista booting now... On 6/9/06, Christian MICHON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot. _

Re: RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Christian MICHON
no the error message from vista is explicit: no acpi, no boot. On 6/9/06, Sylvain Petreolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- "Nigel J. Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed. > You also need 512M of ram and the ability to

RE : Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
--- "Nigel J. Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > Yes you do need ACPI to get the .iso to boot. I tried it and it failed. > You also need 512M of ram and the ability to accept that your PC will > BSOD often :-) > > I'll stick with FC5 > > Nigel > You could try -no-acpi switch perhaps. R