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From: "Laszlo Ersek \(Red Hat\)" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1591724] Re: Windows 7 installation DVD can't boot in qemu 2.6.0/OVMF
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:55:13 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614155513.2293.75262.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160612164746.24391.73023.malonedeb@gac.canonical.com

The following combination:

- OVMF without the SeaBIOS CSM ("pure EFI" in Gerd's RPMs)
- Cirrus video card
- Windows 7 installer in the guest

has never been supported. The VBE Shim in OVMF works on stdvga and QXL
only. This is documented; please refer to OvmfPkg/README, section "UEFI
Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server".

According to your results, stuff works on latest QEMU, in all
configurations that are expected to be functional. Gerd CC'd qemu-
stable@nongnu.org on his patch referenced above, so I guess it will be
part of 2.6.1, whenever it is released. I'm closing this with fix
committed. Thanks.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591724

Title:
  Windows 7 installation DVD can't boot in qemu 2.6.0/OVMF

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  With Qemu 2.5.50 (compiled from git some time ago) I can boot Windows 7 x64 installation DVD as follows:
  ~/code/qemu-v2/bin/slic-v2/native/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -machine type=pc,accel=kvm \
      -enable-kvm \
      -cpu host \
      -m 2048 \
      -vga cirrus \
      -boot d \
      -drive if=pflash,file=/vms/ovmf_x64_firstrun.bin,format=raw \
      -cdrom /vms/win7_sp1.iso \
      -monitor stdio

  This bug suggests different vga options
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1581936. Here's the behaviours
  I'm getting with 2.6.0:

  std - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely
  cirrus - at "Starting Windows" wasps of light freeze before assembling into a flag
  qxl - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely
  virtio - "Starting Windows" with wavering flag hangs indefinitely

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-14 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-12 16:47 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1591724] [NEW] Windows 7 installation DVD can't boot in qemu 2.6.0/OVMF Aleksei Kovura
2016-06-12 20:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1591724] " Laszlo Ersek
2016-06-13  4:42 ` Aleksei Kovura
2016-06-14 15:55 ` Laszlo Ersek (Red Hat) [this message]
2016-06-30 22:03 ` Gannet
2016-07-01  5:37 ` Aleksei Kovura
2016-07-19 19:35 ` Mary Sherman
2016-07-28 12:42 ` tkr

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