On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:05:57AM +0200, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2009 18:32:49 Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi George, > > there's kvm 82 available now in experimental. Does this help with your > > vista boot problems? > > -- Guido > > Hi, > > Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem. However, I did some more > research in the mailing lists and I found this post: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/k...@vger.kernel.org/msg06959.html > > He says that using an older bios.bin solves the problem. So I copied > /usr/share/kvm in a directory in my home, I extracted bios.bin from the > kvm-66 > package and replaced it in this directory, then I run: > > $ kvm -m 768 -L path/to/old/bios/dir vista.qcow2 > > ...and it works!!! So, the real problem is in the bios file. I hope this > helps > to track down the issue. That user in the mailing list points to a specific > commit, which was indeed between kvm-69 and kvm-70. > > As a sidenote, booting vista with --no-kvm works too now (I mean now with > kvm-82, not with the old bios.bin), but this is rather unrelated I guess... Thanks a lot for retesting. this helps indeed! -- Guido
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