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alexandrerua

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Registered: 2015-08-22

Posts: 6

Eror installing Windows7 on kvm

I need to install a Windows 7 Professional VM machine
and following along the excelent wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QE … io_drivers

system state

lsmod | grep kvm
kvm                   462848  0
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm

lsmod | grep virtio
virtio_balloon         16384  0
virtio_scsi            20480  0
virtio_net             28672  0
virtio_blk             20480  0
virtio_ring            20480  4 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_balloon,virtio_scsi
virtio                 16384  4 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_balloon,virtio_scsi
scsi_mod              151552  4 libata,sd_mod,sr_mod,virtio_scsi

image creation
qemu-img create -f raw win7.img 20G

then preparing to go trough setup
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/home/alexandrerua/vms/win7.img,index=0,media=disk,if=virtio,format=raw -drive file=/home/alexandrerua/vms/win7.iso,index=2,media=cdrom -drive file=/home/alexandrerua/vms/virtio-win-0.1.102.iso,index=3,media=cdrom -m 4G

A window opens
Windows is loading files....
The microsoft logo appeaar at bottom and Starting windows..
then Blue screen of death!

I saw the purple note on wiki
Note: If you encounter the Blue Screen of Death, make sure you did not forget the -m parameter, and that you do not boot with virtio instead of ide for the system drive before drivers are installed.

What I'm missing??
would appreciate help...

Alexandre Rua

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Eror installing Windows7 on kvm

Windows 7+ requires KVM to work in a VM.

Enable this option in your QEMU command.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Enabling_KVM

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alexandrerua

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Registered: 2015-08-22

Posts: 6

Re: Eror installing Windows7 on kvm

Solved

was missing the kvm-intel kernel module!

thanks gshearer and Head_on_a_Stick

jasonwryan

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Re: Eror installing Windows7 on kvm

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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