On 03/02/2012 09:18 AM, Martin Edlman wrote: > Hello, > > after some time I tried again if there is any good change in KVM booting > Windows 7. Still no luck. > > I did fresh install of Windows 7 (32 bit) into KVM virtual machine > (qemu-kvm, i686 arch) on my Fedora 16 (x64) running on HP Pavilion dv7 (4GB > RAM, intel i7 CPU). > > Installation went (slow but) fine. After that Windows refuse to boot and > all I see is a cursor on top left corner. See attached log. First two boots > are from installation, the last one is when Windows should boot to normal > operation. According to the log, W7 was installed under qemu-kvm, i686 > arch, so it should be able to run. > > I tried installing Windows XP and Fedora 16 (both 32bit versions, qemu-kvm, > i686 arch). They both work fine. > > I searched other sites and found that there are other users experiencing > the same problem. See > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/qemu-says-my-cpu-is-too-old-897074/. > > I'm able to run W7 in VMWare Player with hw virtualization without problem > and as others wrote (see link above) it's running fine in Virtual Box as well. > > So I'm affraid there's a problem in qemu-kvm. Please try to fix it. > > I (and i hope many other) would really appreciate it. I'd like to get rid > of VMWare as it recompiles modules after each kernel update and when there > are siginificant changes in kernel headers it won't compile (and run) at all. > > Martin E. > Is your host 32 or 64 bit? Can you try recreating the guest, but this time at the end of the virt-manager wizard, choose 'customize before install', 'processor', 'configuration', 'copy cpu from host', 'apply', then start the install. - Cole
