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Ed_P

Nov 30 2010, 02:18 PM

QUOTE (jaclaz @ Nov 30 2010, 01:58 PM)

@Ed_P
At least here, a SP2 XP .iso installs and runs perfectly on Qemu Manager 7.

Well for me it's hit or miss with my PEBuilder.ISOs. And the only thing changing are the AV & AM updates at this point. I even tried doing a contig.exe on the ISO one time but it didn't help nor did a rebuild of it. The last build it worked, the current build it doesn't. But it works every time in QM 4.

jaclaz

Nov 30 2010, 03:05 PM

QUOTE (Ed_P @ Nov 30 2010, 08:18 PM)

It must be something peculiar of your particular PE build.

Or maybe some particular settings of the VM?

I never managed to make a PE 1.x that didn't work on Qemu Manager 7, maybe it desrves a new thread (just in order to not further confuse poor SBernheart

)

Just in case, here is the output of Tools>Show Last Run Command (for the test with the plain XP SP2 we are talking about):

CODE

"D:\Qemuman7\qemu\qemu.exe" -L "D:\Qemuman7\qemu" -M "pc" -m 256 -cpu "qemu32" -vga cirrus -serial vc -parallel vc -name "XPhomeTest" -drive "file=D:\Qemuman7\images\XPhomeTest.raw,index=0,media=disk" -cdrom "I:" -boot order=dc,menu=off -soundhw es1370 -enable-kqemu -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52-54-00-A7-FF-08,model=rtl8139 -net user,vlan=0 -hwnd 80218608 -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:60003,server,nowait -localtime

I am using "basic" Qemu integrated:

QUOTE

Qemu Manager QEMU 0.11.1

jaclaz

Ed_P

Nov 30 2010, 09:50 PM

Thanks jaclaz, good suggestion.

In comparing your QEMU parms

CODE

"D:\Qemuman7\qemu\qemu.exe" -L "D:\Qemuman7\qemu"
-M "pc" -m 256 -cpu "qemu32" -vga cirrus -serial vc -parallel vc -name "XPhomeTest"
-drive "file=D:\Qemuman7\images\XPhomeTest.raw,index=0,media=disk"
-cdrom "I:"
-boot order=dc,menu=off -soundhw es1370 -enable-kqemu -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52-54-00-A7-FF-08,model=rtl8139
-net user,vlan=0 -hwnd 80218608 -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:60003,server,nowait -localtime

verses mine

CODE

"E:\MY UTILS\QEMU Mgr 7.0\qemu\qemu.exe" -L "E:\MY UTILS\QEMU Mgr 7.0\qemu"
-M "pc" -m 320 -cpu "qemu32" -vga cirrus -serial vc -parallel vc -name "{BartPE}"
-drive "file=E:\MY UTILS\QEMU Mgr 7.0\images\BartPE ISO & Virtual drive.qcow2,index=0,media=disk"
-drive "file=O:\PEBuilder\pebuilder.iso,index=2,media=cdrom"
-boot order=d,menu=off -soundhw sb16 -enable-kqemu -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52-54-00-16-13-C7,model=rtl8139
-net user,vlan=0 -usb -hwnd 133192 -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:60001,server,nowait -localtime

I see we use different sound options but the main difference is I'm booting an ISO from a CD you appear to be booting a RAW file from the harddrive.

jaclaz

Dec 1 2010, 05:07 AM

QUOTE (Ed_P @ Dec 1 2010, 03:50 AM)

I see we use different sound options but the main difference is I'm booting an ISO from a CD you appear to be booting a RAW file from the harddrive.

Sure this is the installed XP SP2 from the CD.

Booting the install CD is:

CODE

"D:\Qemuman7\qemu\qemu.exe" -L "D:\Qemuman7\qemu"
-M "pc" -m 256 -cpu "qemu32" -vga cirrus -serial vc -parallel vc -name "XPhomeTest"
-drive "file=D:\Qemuman7\images\XPhomeTest.raw,index=0,media=disk"
-drive "file=C:\ISOS\XP Home.iso,index=2,media=cdrom"
-boot order=dc,menu=off -soundhw es1370 -enable-kqemu -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52-54-00-A7-FF-08,model=rtl8139
-net user,vlan=0 -hwnd 80218608 -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:60005,server,nowait -localtime

But again, I have a number of PE builds, and never happened to find one that doesn't work in Qemu (I mean at least for booting and getting to the desktop).

Which errors are you getting?
That CDFS one?
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...24161&st=91

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms818922.aspx
Which mkisofs parameters did you use?

VERY old (nt4) error caused by AV:
http://fixunix.com/veritas-backup-exec/418...0x00000026.html

jaclaz

Ed_P

Dec 1 2010, 09:42 AM

QUOTE (jaclaz @ Dec 1 2010, 05:07 AM)

Which errors are you getting?
That CDFS one?
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...24161&st=91

Yes. I was going to reattach the image to the moved post and forgot. Sorry.

QUOTE

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms818922.aspx
Which mkisofs parameters did you use?

They're pretty basic and match what PEBuilder uses.

CODE

:DEFAULT3.1.10a
%cd%\mkisofs.exe -iso-level 4 -volid "BartPE" -b bootsect.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -hide bootsect.bin -hide boot.catalog -o "O:\PEBuilder\pebuilder.iso" "%cd%\BartPE"
if errorlevel = 1 pause
goto END

And the ISO created works in QM 4 and I don't ever recall the problem with QM 5 or QM 6. BTW I dropped QM 5 & QM 6 because I didn't like them opening full screen rather than technical problems.

QUOTE

VERY old (nt4) error caused by AV:
http://fixunix.com/veritas-backup-exec/418...0x00000026.html

Wow!! Veritas Backup Exec there's a name I haven't seen, or used, in a long long time.

rdsok

Dec 1 2010, 10:05 AM

QUOTE (Ed_P @ Nov 30 2010, 08:50 PM)

I see we use different sound options but the main difference is I'm booting an ISO from a CD you appear to be booting a RAW file from the harddrive.

You mentioned intermittant results so... Optical drive are commonly known to have read errors so while testing, move your ISO's to your hard drive to take that variable out of the equation. I'm also a bit old school and suggest not using path/file names with spaces or symbols in them just to avoid the occasional issue I've seen on those even with programs that are LFN aware and even if you have properly quoted them as you did.

Ed_P

Dec 1 2010, 09:04 PM

QUOTE (rdsok @ Dec 1 2010, 10:05 AM)

Optical drive are commonly known to have read errors so while testing, move your ISO's to your hard drive to take that variable out of the equation.

The ISO is on my hard drive. It's being read in as a CD within QEMU.

I'm wondering what would happen if I replace QM 7's QEMU folder with the one from QM 4. I might get the best of both worlds.

Ed_P

Dec 1 2010, 09:41 PM

Interesting. I changed the QM 7 BartPE config to use the es1370 sound like you use rather than sb16. It will be interesting to see how long this change works. QM 4's config uses Sound Blaster.

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