[Spice-devel] cannot boot from virtio / no -qxl option

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

> Well, it didn't seem to boot though... However, when I installed it,
> the disk was ide, I then installed the drivers (by adding a second
> drive in virtio mode), switched the main drive to virtio and
> restarted. I already did that a few time ago and it worked... I'm
> currently trying to install it from scratch in virtio mode, by using
> the latest drivers from kvm website : this latest version works with
> windows installer (with F6 at startup to give specific drivers) so it
> may be better.

This is best discussed on the qemu-devel list, I'm just picking up the 
bits from upstream here.

cheers,
   Gerd