[Qemu-discuss] i386 emulation on ARM (Raspberry Pi)

[Mike Skinner]

Hi Everyone,

I have a Rasbian installation on a Raspberry Pi (ARM processor).
qemu is installed - version 1.7.0+dfsg-2+b1

I can boot from several ISOs (gparted 486, various WinXP install disks), 
however I cannot boot from an IMG (raw or qcow2) file or VDI disk once 
WinXP is installed.
I have even setup a WinXP disk image using Qemu on Windows (and can run 
it successfully on Windows), however once I transfer the disk image to 
the Raspberry Pi - it will not boot.

I see the SeaBios version string, an iPXE line, then "Booting from Hard 
Disk..." then "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrol+Alt+Del to 
restart". I am using the following parameters:

qemu-system-i386 -L Bios -m 192 -vga std -localtime -net 
nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -no-acpi 
-cpu pentium -name WinXP -hda xp.img -boot c

I have also tried the FreeDOS img (from http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing) 
with the same parameters as above - except for hda which points to a 
different img file.
I see the SeaBios version string, an iPXE line, then "Booting from Hard 
Disk..." then ".Error!."

Does anyone have any ideas?

Kind Regards (and Merry Christmas),

Mike