Trying to use Windows 10 Technical Preview in a qemu/kvm virtualization environment (host is Debian Linux). I can't boot the "Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x32_ES-MX_10041.iso" install CD, error message is...
Your PC needs to restart.
Please hold down the power button.
Error Code: 0x0000000A
Parameters:
0xFFD00000
0x000000FF
0x0000000A
0x81727083
The full command line is...
qemu-system-i386 -m 1180 -boot d -vnc :55 -hda win10w.img -cdrom iso.iso -name Win10 dev preview (W) -vga cirrus -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=92:00:10:23:74:55,model=ne2k_pci -net user,vlan=0,net=10.10.198.0/24,host=10.10.198.74,hostfwd=tcp::35522-10.10.198.44:22,hostfwd=tcp::35580-10.10.198.44:80
-soundhw ac97 -usb -usbdevice tablet -pidfile testxx.pid -daemonize
In other words, the emulated devices are:
- An IDE hard-drive (25 GB)
- An IDE CD-ROM containing the install image
- A Cirrus Logic-compatible SVGA adaptor
- A NetWare-compatible Ethernet card
- An AC97-compatible audio adaptor
- A USB bus
- A tablet (single-touch) on the USB bus
- A 32-bit virtual CPU
Any suggestions for a different set of virtual hardware to try?
(reported as a Debian bug, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781444 )
Edit: additional tries
Also tried on RHEL6.5 [QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.1 (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6)], still fails but with a slightly different error-message...
Your PC needs to restart.
Please hold down the power button.
Error Code: 0x0000005D
Parameters:
0x03060303
0x756E6547
0x49656E69
0x6C65746E
Edit: Solution
I got this working (all the way through to install, after which installed Java, Bonjour, etc., with KVM; and at least to the "select disk partition" step with qemu-system-i386 version 2.2.1 built from source) by selecting a CPU type of "Nehalem". Other CPU types I tried all gave errors, some a black stop screen with hex dump, some a blue screen with error "SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED". So a working command line is...
qemu-system-i386 ./win10i_u.bin \
-cdrom ./Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x32_ES-MX_10041.iso \
-m 1180 -cpu Nehalem
- Edited by David Lee Lambert Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:27 PM incorporated updates / reported solution