Neither of the solutions proposed works in my remote Jaunty installation. I've followed the following howto step by step:
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-windows-xp-as-a-kvm-guest-on- ubuntu-8.10-desktop And also tried to fix the MBR as suggested by: http://un.codiert.org/2008/09/booting-windows-xp-from-raw-disk-with- linux-kvm/ No matter what I try, disk read error is permanent, both using qemu img files and LVM volumes. -- kvm can not run Windows XP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105195 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs