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Hiren's Bootcd PE LiveCD not booting in windows qemu
Description of problem:
Hiren's Bootcd PE LiveCD not booting up in windows qemu.
PE stands for pre-execution environment which is like a minimal boot environment like windows-recovery.
The ram drive it makes is about 3.5 GiB.
Being able to boot something like Hiren BootCD PE is like a simple test of qemu.
I've tried many things, but I can't figure out if it's because I can't get the arguments right or if it is because of something else.
So far, using windows-qemu, I have not tried to boot a win10-guest-OS on win10 host-OS.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Try to start qemu as per command. Try figure out what the right arguments/options are.
The live cd boot process is as follows
1. First the livecd bootloader loads files from the cdrom and unpacks them into a ramdrive
During this phase, in the taskmgr it can be seen that the memory of the qemu process grows to about 1.5 GiB
2. Then the boot process should transfer to the unpacked OS in the ramdrive.
In the center of the screen, if one is doing efi-boot, then one can see the tianocore logo, else if one is doing legacy boot, then one can see the windows logo.
The windows loading animation, dots in circle, does not start. In some boot attempts, it seems to have put only 1 dot, in other boot attempts nothing at all.
Even after the expansion phase, the qemu process in the taskmgr shows a 11% use (which 1 cpu in a hyperthreading i7 quadcore cpu).
This means emulator is doing something. But, despite waiting for a long time, nothing seems to happen in the guest-display-window.
```
PS F:\> dir D:\bootable\hb*.iso
Directory: D:\bootable
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 9/17/2021 7:29 PM 3099203584 HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.2_20210701.iso
-a--- 3/13/2024 4:45 PM 3291686912 HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.8_20240305.iso
PS F:\> Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.2_20210701.iso
Algorithm Hash Path
--------- ---- ----
SHA256 8281107683E81BE362AFD213026D05B2219BC6A7CA9AF4D2856663F3FFC17BFD D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.2_…
PS F:\> Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.8_20240305.iso
Algorithm Hash Path
--------- ---- ----
SHA256 8C4C670C9C84D6C4B5A9C32E0AA5A55D8C23DE851D259207D54679EA774C2498 D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.8_…
PS F:\> Get-Content D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.2_20210701.iso.sha256
8281107683E81BE362AFD213026D05B2219BC6A7CA9AF4D2856663F3FFC17BFD HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.2_20210701.iso
PS F:\> Get-Content D:\bootable\HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.8_20240305.iso.sha256
8c4c670c9c84d6c4b5a9c32e0aa5a55d8c23de851d259207d54679ea774c2498 HBCD_PE_x64_v1.0.8_20240305.iso
```
Additional information:
- https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
- method to create the bios file is explained in #2233
- I have booted into v1.0.2 in native, so I know v1.0.2 works.
- I have tried qemu with and without EFI bios.
- The more recent v1.0.8 released on 20240305 is Win11 PE based (>22621)
- Virtualbox-7.0.14 is able to boot HBCDPE as normal, but with EFI disabled, and not when enabled.
- As of this issue creation, not yet checked whether under Linux if qemu-kvm can boot HBCDPE.
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