Description of problem: Trying to install Windows XP as a guest on a Fedora 13 host using qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 gives the problems described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/477946 On Ubuntu systems this is fixed with QEMU 0.12.3 On Fedora this bug is still present, at least with qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: install windows XP as a guest on a Fedora 13 host using qemu-kvm Steps to Reproduce: 1.install qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 2.try to install Windows XP as a guest 3.choosing ntfs or fat give different errors Actual results: Windows XP installation fails, reporting either a disk error or a 'missing NTLDR' error Expected results: Windows XP successfully installed Additional info: I checked: yum install qemu-kvm ...... Setting up Install Process Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do
Do you have the qemu command line used for this install? If you were using virt-manager or virt-install for the installation, the command line would be in the logs in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname>.log
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you have the qemu command line used for this install? If you were using > virt-manager or virt-install for the installation, the command line would be in > the logs in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname>.log Here is that file for qemu-kvm-0.12.5-1.fc13.x86_64 LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M fedora-13 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name XPmachine -uuid 3adbaf55-e75b-e69c-09b5-0d0ac66e5091 -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/XPmachine.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -no-reboot -boot d -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/XPmachine.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive file=/dev/sr0,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:42:72:fc,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net tap,fd=57,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M fedora-13 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name XPmachine -uuid 3adbaf55-e75b-e69c-09b5-0d0ac66e5091 -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/XPmachine.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -no-reboot -boot c -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/XPmachine.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive file=/dev/sr0,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:42:72:fc,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net tap,fd=57,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 char device redirected to /dev/pts/0
Is this the same as bug 579348?
Yep.(In reply to comment #3) > Is this the same as bug 579348?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579348 ***