Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:35 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> As additional info: >> >> My XP SP2 installation inside KVM had been working perfectly until >> the moment I installed XP SP3. After that, it blue-screens on >> boot with something related to ACPI. I switched back to SP2 by >> restoring the disk files of the VM and it is working again. >> I started investigating a switch from ACPI to noACPI, but it looks >> like a difficult trick to perform on Windows. >> Any suggestion anyone? >> > > I have to installations of XP/SP3 under qemu-kvm (w/o libvirt), both of > which working just fine. > Both with ACPI and SMP. > > Could you post the resulting qemu-kvm command line? > (Start the VM, locate its PID [ps -AH | grep qemu-kvm], and then post > its command line from /proc/$PID/cmdline) This is my command line (generated by libvirt). /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -vga std -k it -S -M pc -cpu qemu32 -m 2048 -smp 1 -name win -uuid 0795d421-0093-9aa9-64f7-682c47149320 -monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//win.pid -localtime -boot c -drive file=/vms/win/c.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive file=/vms/win/d.img,if=ide,index=1 -drive file=,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -drive file=/vms/win/e.img,if=ide,index=3 -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:06:11:2e,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=17,vlan=0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -soundhw es1370 This is the qemu rpm: qemu-system-x86-0.10.6-9.fc11.x86_64 XP SP3 fails during boot with INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR when running qemu-kvm, but works (slowly, of course) with qemu. XP SP2 is ok both with or without kvm. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines