Comment 40 for bug 105195

Neither of the solutions proposed works in my remote Jaunty installation. I've followed the following howto step by step:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-windows-xp-as-a-kvm-guest-on-ubuntu-8.10-desktop

And also tried to fix the MBR as suggested by:

http://un.codiert.org/2008/09/booting-windows-xp-from-raw-disk-with-linux-kvm/

No matter what I try, disk read error is permanent, both using qemu img files and LVM volumes.