Hi Tom, I've had similar trouble with old bios images. Once I replaced them with those built with qemu-kvm, things started working... regards nik On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:34:57PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 06/01/10 17:32, Thomas Treutner wrote: > >On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:11:17 Tom Hughes wrote: > > > >>Hmm... Well something is wrong because I just get a black screen. I > >>don't even get the BIOS messages since I updated this morning. > > > >If you start your VM with -kernel $image, there's a bug in qemu-0.12.1(.1?), > >which is fixed in 0.12.1.2. > > It's a windows VM, so no. The qemu command libvirt is using is: > > /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -name > windows_xp_64 -uuid bb4c089d-1a5e-b349-07fe-4098efdf5fe0 -monitor > unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/windows_xp_64.monitor,server,nowait > -localtime -boot c -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows_xp_64.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on > -drive if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net > nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:12:4a:56,vlan=0,model=virtio,name=virtio.0 -net > tap,fd=27,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb > -usbdevice tablet -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -k en-gb -vga std -soundhw es1370 > > That said, I've tried stripping most of that out and still get > nothing so I think something more fundamental is wrong. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes (tom@xxxxxxxxxx) > http://www.compton.nu/ > > -- > Libvir-list mailing list > Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > -- ------------------------------------- Nikola CIPRICH LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. 28. rijna 168, 709 01 Ostrava tel.: +420 596 603 142 fax: +420 596 621 273 mobil: +420 777 093 799 www.linuxbox.cz mobil servis: +420 737 238 656 email servis: servis@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------- -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list