> On XP it hangs during boot process. I have had better luck by converting the image to qcow first... ..\qemu-0.9.0-x86\qemu-img.exe convert debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img -O qcow debian-hurd-k16-qemu.qcow ..\qemu-0.9.0-x86\qemu.exe -L ..\qemu-0.9.0-x86 -m 512 -hda debian-hurd-k16-qemu.qcow -localtime -M pc -- lode