Re: Windows 10 won't run on default x86_64 machine anymore

[Reinoud Zandijk]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:53:01PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > The image file was downloaded pre-installed from Microsoft for Edge browser
> > evaluation. I used it first on Qemu 5.1 IIRC and it kept working in Qemu 
> > 5.2.
> 
> issue looks similar to:
> 0a343a5add7 i386/acpi: restore device paths for pre-5.1 vms
> 
> I think that's the problem, the old Windows image (installed on old QEMU),
> may fail to boot if started on newest machine type of a newer QEMU.
> User should use versioned machine type (the same version it was installed on)
> to keep it working the same way otherwise there is no promise that machine ABI
> won't change.

The machine setup doesn't mind changing the machine to the Q35 type; its only
the older machine thats failing to work.

Reinoud