Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista 64 bit on QEMU

2012-06-19 Thread Edward Tisdale
Anup Gangwar anup.gangwar at gmail.com writes: Hello All,Has anyone had success installing (and runnning) Vista 64 bit on QEMU. I tried it and landed into a variety of windows blue screen errors. The EFI BIOS also does not seem to be working with the QEMU version in CVS. Thanks for the

[Qemu-devel] Windows Vista 64 bit on QEMU

2008-01-03 Thread Anup Gangwar
Hello All, Has anyone had success installing (and runnning) Vista 64 bit on QEMU. I tried it and landed into a variety of windows blue screen errors. The EFI BIOS also does not seem to be working with the QEMU version in CVS. Thanks for the help. Regards, Anup

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-08-20 Thread Joseph Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem isn't with qemu. MinGW doesn't support largefiles yet so qemu can internally handle this (for example, qcow), but the physical file cannot be larger than 2GB on MinGW. Petition those guys to fix this. Cygwin has supported largefiles

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista D0000144

2006-06-28 Thread Natalia Portillo
Hi, Ask in Windows Vista official forums in technet page (http:// technet.microsoft.com/) what the error is, and so we can know what the problem is inside qemu. Regards Natalia Portillo El 27/06/2006, a las 20:52, Marco Sanvido escribió: Numerous people successfully installed vista on

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-12 Thread Christian MICHON
interestingly enough, qemu-img is compiled with large file support, yet on win32/mingw (gcc 3.4.5) qemu-img cannot manage images bigger than 2Gb anyone ever succeded this on win32 host ? large file support using mingw ? On 6/9/06, Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 June 2006

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-12 Thread Natalia Portillo
I'm sure you're doing something bad. I used qemu-img and qemu with mingw32 and files not just bigger than 2Gb but bigger than 6Gb even. El 12/06/2006, a las 20:33, Christian MICHON escribió: interestingly enough, qemu-img is compiled with large file support, yet on win32/mingw (gcc 3.4.5)

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-12 Thread Christian MICHON
I don't mind learning. Which version of msys/mingw/gcc/binutils do you have ? On 6/12/06, Natalia Portillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're doing something bad. I used qemu-img and qemu with mingw32 and files not just bigger than 2Gb but bigger than 6Gb even. -- Christian

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-12 Thread Christian MICHON
qemu-img.exe create -f raw test.raw 2G should take a couple of minutes to run, yet completes in less than 1s and test.raw is 0 bytes long. On 6/12/06, Natalia Portillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're doing something bad. I used qemu-img and qemu with mingw32 and files not just bigger

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-12 Thread Christian MICHON
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/download/qemu-0.8.1-win32-imgover4g.patch apparently fixes this. maybe Natalia mentionned no problem on qcow images, not raw. On 6/12/06, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qemu-img.exe create -f raw test.raw 2G should take a couple of minutes to run,

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread René Korthaus
With CVS from May 28 Vista install boots. But now i got another problem: During extraction of files install stops with an unknown hardware error. Is there a size limit for -cdrom files? The install DVD is about 3,3GB. Am 09.06.2006 um 02:11 schrieb Nigel J. Terry: Christian MICHON wrote:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread René Korthaus
Edit: I think it has something to do with the harddisk image. Error is STOP: d144 Unknown Hard Error. Somebody having an idea? Am 09.06.2006 um 09:55 schrieb René Korthaus: With CVS from May 28 Vista install boots. But now i got another problem: During extraction of files install

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:20 +0200, René Korthaus wrote: Edit: I think it has something to do with the harddisk image. Error is STOP: d144 Unknown Hard Error. Somebody having an idea? I set the windows 2000 install fix flag (-win2k-hack) and it installed for me. Upon install,

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread René Korthaus
Am 09.06.2006 um 14:08 schrieb Brian Wheeler: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:20 +0200, René Korthaus wrote: Edit: I think it has something to do with the harddisk image. Error is STOP: d144 Unknown Hard Error. Somebody having an idea? I set the windows 2000 install fix flag (-win2k-hack)

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:25 +0200, René Korthaus wrote: Am 09.06.2006 um 14:08 schrieb Brian Wheeler: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:20 +0200, René Korthaus wrote: Edit: I think it has something to do with the harddisk image. Error is STOP: d144 Unknown Hard Error. Somebody having

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread René Korthaus
-win2k-hack worked for me now! :-D install is overall 3 hours on an Intel Core Duo 2.0Ghz machine 512mb Ram for Vista. One OS more on the Qemu supported list! Thanks to all you guys, especially those who introduced ACPI to qemu in the last weeks! Cheers from Project Q! cordney* Am

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. ReactOS has

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 accept

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
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 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 tried it and it

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

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 carry

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Paul Brook
On Friday 09 June 2006 21:41, Christian MICHON wrote: 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

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.

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-09 Thread Christian MICHON
true. I just noticed in qemu makefiles all large file support are already in. I guess I need to try with a big raw image... On 6/9/06, Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 June 2006 21:41, Christian MICHON wrote: ok, I'll try that. But I also suspect a win32/mingw limitation on

[Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, Microsoft has released a free download ISO of Windows Vista Beta 2. This Beta will expire at July 1st 2007. Anyone who want to download it (3.3 GB for 32 bit version, 4.4 GB for 64 bit version) can go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx It might be fun to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-08 Thread Christian MICHON
don't you need special acpi features inside qemu/bios, otherwise the iso would not boot ? On 6/8/06, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, Microsoft has released a free download ISO of Windows Vista Beta 2. This Beta will expire at July 1st 2007. Anyone who want to download it

Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Vista

2006-06-08 Thread Nigel J. Terry
Christian MICHON wrote: don't you need special acpi features inside qemu/bios, otherwise the iso would not boot ? On 6/8/06, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, Microsoft has released a free download ISO of Windows Vista Beta 2. This Beta will expire at July 1st 2007. Anyone