<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Steve, as I said, I can do a full WinXP install, but not get qemu to reload if I close the session. The command line I used is qemu -user-net -hda winxp -cdrom /home/data/files/WindowsXPSP2.iso -boot d -hda image file winxp (I'm in the directory where that file is), as hard disk a (or 0,0) as the ide disk. -cdrom use as iso image (my WinXP cd as an iso file - not mounted) as the windows XP install CD -boot d use the hard disk to boot from. When this was running I did a savevm before shutting down, in the hope that using the disk image and a memory image would enable the boot to work. It didn't <IMG SRC="cid:1115160014.8565.26.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-(" BORDER="0"> Anyway the commandline I used for this was: qemu -user-net -hda winxp -loadvm savwinxp1 -cdrom /home/data/files/WindowsXPSP2.iso -boot d I hope my copy of Vmware 5 (beta has run out) get's here soon as I need access to a few windows things. Hope this info is useful, let me know how you go. Russ On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:33 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:13:48PM +1000, Russell Cook wrote: > Hi has anyone been using qemu to run other OS? I've successfully installed > Windows XP in a qemu session, but can't get it to reboot. It hangs on the > "Booting from Hard Disk..." line with not other output. I know the OS is > written to the disk as I've rebooted windows within the qemu session and it's > reloaded (and not from the CD) so I'm not sure what to "fix". I'm curious how you got it to work. I created a blank disk image using bximage, then ran qemu with the appropriate switches and pointed it at the new disk image and an ISO image of a Win2K CD. The 2K installer started working properly, but it quickly gave me an error message saying that it couldn't find a hard disk. If you don't mind, could you pass along the steps you've taken to get qemu working with Windows images? Thanks, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel <A HREF="mailto:steve@laniels.org">steve@laniels.org</A> +(617) 308-5571 <A HREF="http://laniels.org/">http://laniels.org/</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>