Just a random, possibly-relevant, anecdotal piece of info... I have had trouble booting from Win7-x64 install disks on some (multiple) less than brand-new systems (never a problem with Win7-x86, though)... it wouldn't surprise me if a VM had similar problems.
YMMV, HTH, etc. -Rick On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > I built and installed qemu-kvm from the Slackbuilds.org script and loaded > the kvm-intel module on my Dell Latitude laptop. I bought a Dell > re-installation disk of Win7/home to use as the guest OS, being told by the > seller that it works on all systems. (Since I know nothing about > Microsoft's > stuff I took his word for it.) > > With the disk in the Dell laptop's optical drive I invoke qemu-kvm and am > told that 'boot failed: could not read from CDROM (code 0003)'. > > If anyone here has experience with qemu-kvm please advise me what to do > to > get the guest OS installed. > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
