I wrote already which system I use (see the third reply). It's Gentoo on AMD64 with the hardened no-multilib profile with qemu-kvm 0.12.4 and SeaBIOS 0.5.1.
It isn't really my own build. Since I use Gentoo, it was compiled on my own computer and it's installed in /usr, not in /usr/local. Qemu only gives an error if I use the -L parameter. Still, I can't boot any Windows XP and 2003 install CD. It definitely hangs at boot time, it happens anything in the cpu registers, only EIP and EFL are changing between these values: Command line : > qemu-kvm -L /usr/share/qemu/ -cdrom /srv/vm/win2k3srv.iso -fda > /srv/vm/virtio.img -boot d -enable-kvm -monitor stdio (qemu) info kvm kvm support: enabled (qemu) info registers EAX=00000000 EBX=000002fe ECX=00000002 EDX=00000040 ESI=00000000 EDI=00000004 EBP=00000010 ESP=000002e4 EIP=0000e919 EFL=00033246 [---Z-P-] CPL=3 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0040 00000400 0000ffff 0000f300 CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 0000f300 SS =9f40 0009f400 0000ffff 0000f300 DS =9f40 0009f400 0000ffff 0000f300 FS =230c 000230c0 0000ffff 0000f300 GS =230c 000230c0 0000ffff 0000f300 LDT=0000 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 TR =0028 feffd000 00002088 00008b00 GDT= 0003f000 000003ff IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00039000 CR4=00000000 DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000 DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400 FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00000000 FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000 FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000 FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000 FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000 XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000 (qemu) info registers EAX=00000000 EBX=000002fe ECX=00000002 EDX=00000040 ESI=00000000 EDI=00000004 EBP=00000010 ESP=000002e4 EIP=0000e91a EFL=00023046 [---Z-P-] CPL=3 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0040 00000400 0000ffff 0000f300 CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 0000f300 SS =9f40 0009f400 0000ffff 0000f300 DS =9f40 0009f400 0000ffff 0000f300 FS =230c 000230c0 0000ffff 0000f300 GS =230c 000230c0 0000ffff 0000f300 LDT=0000 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 TR =0028 feffd000 00002088 00008b00 GDT= 0003f000 000003ff IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00039000 CR4=00000000 DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000 DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400 FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00000000 FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000 FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000 FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000 FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000 XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000 By the way, I have trouble to compile the newest code of qemu.git, but that could be more a bug related to Portage's tree. The used make scripts are from the qemu.git source though. -- WinXP install cd hangs at boot time if machine started with floppy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586420 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I have a second problem: I wanted to install Windows Server 2003 on a virtio drive, so I tried to start the machine with the install cd as the boot drive and a floppy image with the viostor drivers. The problem is, the install cd hangs at boot time. If I start VNC I just see a black ground with 640x480. I've also tried this with the install cd of Windows Server 2008 R2 and it works! Could it be that the BIOS screws up because the older install cds are using the floppy emulation to boot the setup?