Thought i'd try learning how to use qemu but am stuck, i have a virtual machine setup to boot xp iso and a .vmdk disk image, i got through most of the installation of xp but then it bsods with 0x000000A5 which means the bios is not fully compatible with ACPI 2.0 i googled around for this and found some message board which mentioned bochs latest bios.bin, i managed to find a bios.bin for bochs and replaced the qemu bios.bin but it still bsods. i also downloaded the latest seabios 256k bios bin and replaced that, still bsods. my qemu batch file looks like; qemu-system-x86_64.exe -machine type=q35 -cpu max -m 512 -vga vmware -boot d -cdrom "L:\XP.iso" -boot c -hda e:\test1.vmdk anyone here know qemu and might be able to tell me what's wrong?
ok, removed the -machine type=q35 and it boots now, is the "-machine" bit required? arrghh now it's a IRQL bsod instead on booting..