[fedora-virt] windows 7 ACPI issue

[Dor Laor]

On 12/21/2009 11:03 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> I attempted to upgrade one of my XP virtual machines images to win 7 and got the following error:
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> The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue.
>
> This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard. Windows must be installed onto a computer that supports ACPI. Contact your computer manufacturer for a BIOS update or install Windows on an ACPI-compliant computer.
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> Has else anybody seen this?
>
> The only reference I found in google was that ACPI isn't available on 32 VMs.. So I reinstalled xp on an x86_VM and got the same error when attempting to upgrade to win 7.


Please check the devmgmt.msc gui app inside the guest - under 
computer.cpu, test what is the HAL - standard HAL is none acpi and acpi 
hal,.. you know.

Also test that qemu is not running with -no-acpi.

Having said above, I never tried an upgrade.

> Emmett
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