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qemu-kvm package

  1. Bug #671163
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 671163

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: win2k3 guest has blank screen and high cpu on first boot

>, and thread showed high cpu use.
>
>then I tried your next suggestion...
> qemu-img create win1.img 20G
> kvm -hda win1.img -cdrom win2003*.iso -m 1G -boot d
>
>my actual line was:
> sudo kvm -hda win1.img -cdrom win2k3.iso -m 1G -boot d
>and the returned the error "Could not initialize SDL - exiting"
>next I did
> sudo kvm -hda win1.img -cdrom win2k3.iso -m 1G -boot d -vga cirrus
>still got the same error.

Ok, I see, so you're doing this remotely.

>if I substitute
>-drive file=win1.img
>with
>-drive file=/mnt/slices/newtuna.qcow2,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on,format=qcow2
>
>it no longer works.

Where did you get your virtio drivers from (/mnt/isos/virtio-win-1.1.11-0.iso
and /mnt/isos/viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img)? Those are pretty delicate,
so thus far it would seem we should look into
  1) the windows virtio drivers as your not-booting problem
  2) either the virtio drivers or qcow causing your slow install