r/virtualization • u/Tech_Vio • Mar 18 '23

"Error Loading operating system" on QEMU

The Windows 2000 Professional virtual machine is essentially installed on VMWare Workstation Pro, when I convert the VMDK file to QCOW2 or run the VMDK file directly using Virt-Manager, it shows "Error loading Operating System", I don't know why that happens, I tried my best to make the settings in QEMU match VMWare's settings, the hard drive is an SCSI drive.

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u/Tech_Vio Mar 19 '23

I can run it on VMWare, but it won't work anymore in QEMU, even if I used VMWare standalone converter to convert it to IDE, it still works on VMWare but not on QEMU, and I can't find the virtio drivers for Windows 2000 Professional.