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  1. Bug #1737194
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Comment 11 for bug 1737194

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John Arbuckle (programmingkidx) wrote : Re: [Bug 1737194] Windows NT 4.0 fails to boot from qcow2 installation

I have installed Windows 95 OSR 2.5 in QEMU using the qcow2 format. So far there hasn't been any major problems that prevent Windows from booting.

I downloaded the ISO file from here: https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-95/osr-3

Used this floppy boot image to boot QEMU: https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-windows-boot-disk/95-osr2x

Created the hard drive image file like this: qemu-img create -f qcow2 ~/windows95.qcow2 2G

I used my Windows XP VM to format this qcow2 file to the FAT format.

My first attempt to boot the hard drive image file failed probably because the CPU was set to something Windows 95 couldn't handle properly. Changing the cpu to a pentium removed the booting problem.

This is the command-line I used to boot Windows 95:
qemu-system-i386 -hda windows95.qcow2 -boot c -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device ne2k_isa,netdev=mynet0 -soundhw sb16 -m 32 -cpu pentium -vga cirrus -localtime

The version of QEMU I used is today's git version (commit e607bbee553cfe73072870cef458cfa4e78133e2).