Comments on: Windows 8 x64 and Qemu

By: Gnanee

Gnanee — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:33:00 +0000

I am trying to do dual boot windows on ARM device using QEMU .

I tried with Windows XP in QEMU 1.7, it seems to be successful. But the booting of windows 8 is not success. we were able to give 1016MB RAM allocation. Reboot happens continuously & blue log comes and goes…

You have any suggestion on this

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:49:12 +0000

In reply to kaeding. It looks like you are mixing KVM and Qemu... Although I really don't know as I haven't messed with KVM on a user level.

By: kaeding

kaeding — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:45:43 +0000

Can anyone tell me the exact command line for qemu?
When I try to install win8 in qemu 1.7.0 (running on linux),
I get a pop-up window saying

X:\windows\system32>rem …..
The system cannot find the path specified.
[Error] The boot disk cannot be found.
Press any key to continue . . .

Then qemu restarts.

Here’s what I tried:
qemu -drive file=hd.img,if=scsi,media=disk –drive file=cd.iso,if=scsi,media=cdrom,readonly -enable-kvm -netdev user,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,romfile=,netdev=hostnet0 -m 2048 -M pc-0.13 -cpu core2duo,+lahf_lm,+sse4.1,+xtpr,+cx16,+tm2,+est,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:44:25 +0000

In reply to John. too bad it doesn't work in qemu.

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:20:36 +0000

works fine with qemu-kvm vs. 1.6.1

By: drayevarg

drayevarg — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:08:12 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t realize before this was for Qemu in Windows. I tried it and it was abysmally slow — I aborted the XP guest installation in frustration.

Yeah, my good results are with the KVM accelerator in Linux, and I’ve used both Windows 8 32 and 64 bit successfully (moreso with 32-bit).

Anyway, I’ll stop being a ‘necromancer’. ^_^

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:00:50 +0000

In reply to drayevarg. KVM, sure, but I highly doubt vanilla Qemu.

By: drayevarg

drayevarg — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:07:36 +0000

Nowadays qemu runs Windows 8 just fine. Thought I’d throw that out there since this was one of the first results for ‘ qemu “windows xp” ‘

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:17:36 +0000

In reply to Richard. Qemu can give far more ram on 64bit capable platforms. I'm pretty sure Qemu won't run Windows 8 on the 64bit mode, just as it won't run 2003/XP, Vista or 7. And to be honest, I really don't see Windows 8 going anywhere anytime soon, 95 at least had a 'point' Just wait until all these RT users find out they can't run anything on their tablets.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:14:49 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

Windows 8 x64 require 2048 MB RAM. Qemu only supports 2047.

Try 32bit version of Windows 8, it requires 1024 MB.

See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/download for detailed requirements.