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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Sun Aug 1 16:51:59 UTC 2010


On 01/08/10 17:49, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:54 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> 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/

No I think mine are older than that. I did Google but couldn't turn up 
anything newer than what I already had.

I'll give those a go tomorrow.

Tom

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