I agree to #10. Today I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.4-r3 and I still can't boot Windows XP/2003 without booting the install cd at first.
But now: After I tried to boot the Windows installation I get the same odd char in the screen as described by #10. Plus, I can install Windows without problems, but it doesn't boot AFTER the setup, whether I use IDE or VirtIO as hard disk bus. Ergo: Booting from install cd, the setup copies the files on the hard disk, reboot, booting from hard disk, the setup installs Windows, reboot, and then: it hangs. Seems to be an BIOS issue. -- Windows XP/2003 doesn't boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Incomplete Status in Debian GNU/Linux: New Status in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Hello everyone, my qemu doesn't boot any Windows XP/2003 installations if I try to boot the image. If I boot the install cd first, it's boot manager counts down and triggers the boot on it's own. That's kinda stupid. I'm using libvirt, but even by a simple > qemu-kvm -drive file=image.img,media=disk,if=ide,boot=on it won't boot. Qemu hangs at the message "Booting from Hard Disk..." I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.4 with SeaBIOS 0.5.1 on Gentoo (No-Multilib and AMD64). It's a server, that means I'm using VNC as the primary graphic output but i don't think it should be an issue.
