Re: XP SP2 install dies with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Hi!

Parag Warudkar wrote:
> I am using kvm-8 plus all 8 kernel side updates for 2.6.20-rc2. 
> If I start a XP SP2 install using qemu and KVM it dies with a BSOD. 
> If KVM is disabled, the installation proceeds as expected.

That's a known problem. XP SP2 doesn't work with the current ACPI 
implementation, but you can use `qemu -no-acpi' to install and run it. 
You just have to kill and restart qemu manually when XP fails to reboot 
(which won't work without ACPI).

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Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael@xxxxxxxx>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little

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