XP Pro SP2 refuses to initiate graphical install phase

[Liam]

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

A new VM install of Windows XP Pro SP2 successfully completes the blue (text-based) install phase, reboots, and stays at the XP boot splash screen with progress bars flowing under the logo. No disk activity occurs, CPU usage is pegged at 100%, and no errors or other information is displayed.

Defining an identical VM in virt-manager using qemu instead of kvm proceeds as expected. Obviously, rather slow, but will test to see if VM runs when the original kvm VM is launched once setup is complete.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kvm (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic-pae 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 9 12:42:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
KvmCmdLine:
 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
 114 8298 1 99 146651 49488 1 12:39 ? 00:05:15 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.12 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name XPPro.Secure -uuid 5ea0362b-420a-cec2-485e-49bdd6ce058e -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/XPPro.Secure.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot dc -drive file=/dev/mapper/XPPro.Secure,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive file=/mnt/usbstick/en_winxp_pro_with_sp2.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:6b:2a:71,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net tap,fd=35,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D620
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic-pae root=/dev/mapper/VG1-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
dmi.bios.date: 05/16/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0TD761
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd05/16/2008:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0TD761:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D620
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.