[fedora-virt] Hey, my Win XP machine now bluescreens

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:54 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 01/08/10 15:40, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> > I've had a Windows XP KVM running through several fedora
> > upgrades and updates, and I just tried starting it for
> > the first time since getting the libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
> > update, and now it bluescreens.
> 
> Ah, so it's not just me then...
> 
> > I had been running the redhat virtio disk and network drivers
> > inside the KVM, have they gone incompatible on me? (I guess
> > I could try switching the KVM back to IDE emulation and
> > see if it starts working).
> 
> It's virtio I suspect. That was certainly what I found, that switching 
> back to IDE fixed it.
> 
> I thought I had ruled out all likely changes (ie updates to kernel 
> and/or qemu) though so had pretty much decided that Windows had just 
> decided to start objecting to the driver for some reason.
> 
> It's only booting that seems to be a problem - if you hot add a virtio 
> disk while Windows is running then it can access it just fine.

Are you using the Fedora virtio-win drivers from:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/13/

Jusitn