[Qemu-discuss] Trouble starting various qemu-system-*.exe on Windows 7

[Steere, Andy]

Newbie problem: I'm having trouble getting qemu to run a mipsel Debian VM. I’m using qemu version 2.0.50 x86 which I downloaded from http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/qemu-w32-setup-20140529.exe. I also tried the qemu-w32-setup-20130619.exe from the same website with the same results.

 

When I run qemu-system-mipsel.exe there is no output or Windows event log entries. Here is the command line:

                qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta -hda debian_wheezy_mipsel_standard.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0"

 

When I start qemu-system-mipsel.exe without arguments there is no output or Windows event log entries.

 

The two Windows OS I have tried are the following:

1. Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 with Mingw installed

2. Win7 Pro SP1 x32 VM without Mingw installed.

 

I am able to get qemu to run a mipsel Debian in an Ubuntu 14.0 VM which would validate the vm and qcow files.

 

The Windows qemu installation appears to be good because I can get an i386 Ubuntu version running on the Win7 host.

 

When I start the qemu-system-i386.exe without arguments the qemu window opens and eventually halts due to no boot image.

 

Curious I wrote a simple script to start all the qemu-system-*.exe files in the distribution without any arguments. The results were mixed. Some of the qemu exes start a qemu window. Others write to the event log and the last group does not write anything to stdout or stderr.

 

Here is an example event log entry:

 

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

  <Provider Name="Application Error" />

  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

  <Level>2</Level>

  <Task>100</Task>

  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-06-03T22:19:54.000000000Z" />

  <EventRecordID>55111</EventRecordID>

  <Channel>Application</Channel>

  <Computer>asteere.Peak8DDC.local</Computer>

  <Security />

  </System>

<EventData>

  <Data>qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>

  <Data>2.0.50.0</Data>

  <Data>5386bc6a</Data>

  <Data>qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>

  <Data>2.0.50.0</Data>

  <Data>5386bc6a</Data>

  <Data>40000015</Data>

  <Data>000fc8db</Data>

  <Data>17d4</Data>

  <Data>01cf7f79f09f3a0e</Data>

  <Data>c:\Program Files (x86)\qemu\qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>

  <Data>c:\Program Files (x86)\qemu\qemu-system-moxiew.exe</Data>

  <Data>2fa9e357-eb6d-11e3-bf2c-cc52af8aa3bb</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

 

Thanks for your help,

Andy