Installing Windows XP under KVM (SP3 fails)

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:35 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> As additional info:
> 
> My XP SP2 installation inside KVM had been working perfectly until
> the moment I installed XP SP3. After that, it blue-screens on
> boot with something related to ACPI. I switched back to SP2 by
> restoring the disk files of the VM and it is working again.
> I started investigating a switch from ACPI to noACPI, but it looks
> like a difficult trick to perform on Windows.
> Any suggestion anyone?
> 

I have to installations of XP/SP3 under qemu-kvm (w/o libvirt), both of
which working just fine.
Both with ACPI and SMP.

Could you post the resulting qemu-kvm command line?
(Start the VM, locate its PID [ps -AH | grep qemu-kvm], and then post
its command line from /proc/$PID/cmdline)

- Gilboa