i am trying to install a 64bit Windows 7 and i fail to start the guest i tried my best. i upgraded the kernel to 3.16 i upgraded the Qemu-kvm package from backports.
where ever i start the machine shows this error. 2014-10-23 13:55:45.281+0000: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm -name Win7ForDev -S -machine pc-1.1,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu kvm64,+pdcm,+xtpr,+cid,+vmx,+ds_cpl,$ char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 (label charserial0) KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failure EAX=00000010 EBX=00000080 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000080 ESI=0025da4a EDI=0007da4a EBP=00001f20 ESP=00000200 EIP=0000009b EFL=00010002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0020 00000200 0000ffff 00009300 CS =b000 000b0000 0000ffff 00009f00 SS =0020 00000200 0000ffff 00009300 DS =0020 00000200 0000ffff 00009300 FS =0020 00000200 0000ffff 00009300 GS =0020 00000200 0000ffff 00009300 LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 GDT= 002b0000 00000027 IDT= 00000000 000003ff CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff <ff> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff for more detail please see below. root@hippo:~# lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 15 Model: 6 Stepping: 4 CPU MHz: 3193.240 BogoMIPS: 6386.05 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 16K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7 root@hippo:~# uname -a Linux hippo 3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.3-2~bpo70+1 (2014-09-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux root@hippo:~# dpkg -l | grep qemu ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2.1~bpo70+1 all PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu ii qemu 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u4 amd64 fast processor emulator ii qemu-kvm 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU Full virtualization on x86 hardware ii qemu-slof 20131015+dfsg-1~bpo70+1 all Slimline Open Firmware -- QEMU PowerPC version ii qemu-system 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries ii qemu-system-arm 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (arm) ii qemu-system-common 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) ii qemu-system-mips 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (mips) ii qemu-system-misc 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (miscelaneous) ii qemu-system-ppc 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc) ii qemu-system-sparc 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc) ii qemu-system-x86 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) ii qemu-user 1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u4 amd64 QEMU user mode emulation binaries ii qemu-utils 2.1+dfsg-5~bpo70+1 amd64 QEMU utilities