Thanks for the suggestion. I've successfully installed on a new qcow2 image.

Strangely all of my xp raw images no longer work. That makes me think 
that this is more than just a corrupt image.

I've been using kvm for several years with raw images, so I don't think 
the BIOS could be a factor either.

If there's a way to get my raw images to work, that would be nice. I'm 
trying to convert one of the raw images to qcow2 -- perhaps that will work.

Avi Kivity wrote:
quoted text
> On 10/28/2009 05:27 PM, Andrew Olney wrote:
>> Thanks. In pursuing this suggestion I discovered that I also can't 
>> make new XP VMs. Setup fails with "the disk may be damaged".
>>
>> The image was created with
>>
>> qemu-img create xp_new.img 13G
>>
>> And the setup command is
>>
>> kvm -cdrom xp/xp_pro.iso -hda xp_new.img -boot d -m 512 -no-acpi -usb 
>> -usbdevice tablet
> 
> What happens if you use a new qcow2 disk?  Does it fail in the same way?
> 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html