Re: [kvm-devel] Vista 32 Premium 32 bit gets blue screen on boot

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Haydn Solomon wrote:
> Yep.. sure enough, that did it.
>

Please try out the bios images in
http://people.qumranet.com/avi/bios-images/ and let us know which ones
work and which don't.

> On 8/23/07, *Avi Kivity* <av...@qu... <mailto:av...@qu...>>
> wrote:
>
>     Haydn Solomon wrote:
>     > I've installed vista premium home 32 bit  on previous versions
>     of kvm,
>     > namely 24-1 which is packaged with fedora 7. Since then I've removed
>     > these packages and building kvm from releases from sourceforge
>     > provided qumranet website. When I try to install vista premium
>     home 32
>     > bit using kvm release 36 I'm getting blue screen.  I'm running on a
>     > dell 1720 core 2 duo, 2 GB ram. I'm running fedora 7 64-bit. The
>     > previously installed windows xp ( installed using kvm release 35
>     ) is
>     > running fine under release 36. I'm starting kvm with the following:
>     >
>     > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
>     > -hda vistahome.img \
>     > -m 400 \
>     > -no-rtc \
>     > -localtime \
>     > -boot d \
>     > -cdrom /home/hsolomon/isos/VISTA_32_PREMIUM.iso &
>     >
>     > The message from the blue screen is:
>     >
>     > ***STOP: 0X000000A5 ( 0X0001000B, 0X50434146, 0XFFD0502C,
>     0X00000000 )
>     >
>     > Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks and great piece of
>     work here
>     > guys.
>     >
>
>     Can you check which version of kvm causes the regression?
>
>     If kvm-35 works and kvm-36 doesn't, try copying kvm-35's bios.bin
>     (from
>     qemu/pc-bios) to the install location  (/use/local/share/qemu/bios.bin
>     by default)
>
>     --
>     error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>


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