Windows 7 guests hang on bootup when qxl video is used
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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QEMU |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
qemu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I installed libvirt-bin and virt-manager on Ubuntu 16.04. I created a new VM for Windows 7, basically with default settings, which includes qxl video.. The Windows boot process hangs with the "Starting Windows" animation. CPU and disk I/O drop to zero, and it continues animating.... forever and ever... It never finishes booting. But it doesn't fully "hang" either: the animation continues to animate.
As a workaround, I set the video mode to "Cirrus" and then Windows boots but it is slow and limited. And also apparently to be avoided:
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I can confirm it's only when qxl is enabled, because if I switch from Cirrus back to qxl, it hangs again - and going back to Cirrus again "fixes" the problem.
This issue is also reported elsewhere:
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Hi,
IUC this is not a bug in libvirt or virt-manager or qemu. The problem
is that windows 7 does not ship with the needed qxl drivers. You need
to download those and install them in the windows 7 guest.
http:// www.spice- space.org/ download. html