Re: [kvm-devel] KVM and Vista question

[Anup G. <anu...@gm...>]

Hello All,

I did not get any response, so, resending. Could someone please throw some
more light on the points below.

Any pointers will be appreciated.

Regards,

Anup

On Jan 10, 2008 9:36 PM, Anup Gangwar <anu...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I was trying to get Vista 64-bit to boot off QEMU and was pointed to this
> list from the QEMU developers list. From the guest compatibility page I
> could gather that KVM with Intel host is able to boot a Vista 64-bit guest,
> however the stand-alone version of QEMU does not (yet) support booting
> Vista. Could someone please provide more insight as to how this is achieved.
> My understanding is that there are problems in:
>
> 1. ACPI code in QEMU BIOS
> 2. Deficiencies in device model
>
> I believe that these issues are addressed in the QEMU  tree being
> maintained with KVM. Is there anything additional which KVM does to get
> Vista to work?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anup
>
>