Re: [Qemu-discuss] WinXP Guest: New hardware found - VGA controller

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 01/25 12:43, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> El 25/01/17 a les 09:49, Alberto Garcia ha escrit:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:00:26AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm trying Qemu (2.8.0) on Slackware GNU Linux 14.2 (64-bit) host.
> >> I've a Windows XP (guest) raw image which was working with Qemu
> >> times ago (I used it on an older Slackware version as host system).
> > 
> > The default hardware emulated by QEMU changes in each new version.
> > 
> > If it worked with an earlier version and now you find that the guest
> > is detecting new hardware, try forcing the emulation of a machine from
> > an older version of QEMU.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > qemu-system-i386 -M pc-i440fx-1.6 -m 2G ...
> > 
> > Type 'qemu-system-i386 -M ?' for a complete list.
> > 
> > Berto
> > 
> 
> Is there some documentation about default hardware for each QEMU version?
> For similar reason, I'm interested in to use equivalent specification by
> parameters, to "freeze" a lot of guests' hardware environments.
> 
> 

In this case you may want to use virt-manager/libvirt to manage your VMs, which
will take care of stablizing QEMU parameters across version changes and even
more importantly migration (in case you use it).

Fam