Can only boot once a Clonezilla Windows Vista image

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hayvan

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Hi,
I've backed up my father-in-law-'s old laptop with clonezilla. It was a Windows Vista laptop.
Back to ours, I've created a kvm to restore the clonezilla image -- it then boots once, it adds some "unknown" devices looking for their drivers.
But when I reboot, it will show the Microsoft Logo then BSOD with a 0x0000000A error (IRQL _not_less_or_equal).
I don't understand how I can boot only once and then whatever I do, it will BSOD.
I've created a backup just after the Clonezilla restore success, so I'm trying different options, in vain.

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What should I do during that unique boot (what should I fix) in order to be able to restart the vm?

thanks !

qm config :
boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 2
cpu: IvyBridge
ide0: Crucial4To:113/vm-113-disk-0.qcow2,size=160G
ide2: Crucial4To:iso/fr_windows_7_home_premium_with_sp1_x86_dvd_u_676678.iso,media=cdrom,size=2435396K
kvm: 0
machine: pc-i440fx-10.1
memory: 2048
meta: creation-qemu=10.1.2,ctime=1772813275
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:CA:32:F9,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: w2k8
scsihw: lsi53c810
smbios1: uuid=9b739ffe-a362-4b2a-b59e-c1cb21e7cb07
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 115b110e-c3ed-42b1-93aa-009bbd75977f
 
Hi, I had tried to update the system to W7, thinking Vista is too old, but well, it doesn't work.
WHat I've tried :
* during the first boot, I've chosen safe mode, uninstalled drivers or programs (like Acer management) and installed manually all drivers from Virtio drivers 0.1.96 (ballon, etc.). But when i reboot, it will lead to the same error, it even fails to start again in safe mode (the safe mode leads to the same error)

Now I will retry the same, but not in safe mode to be able to uninstall more programs (windows installer is limited in safe mode).

I wonder what is the best settings in terms of configuration (including host CPU) and the latest working viritio drivers for vista
 
Success! What I did :
* started in normal mode
* By iteration I found out virtio 0.1.173-3 could install almost of its contents, specially the qemu agent
* I installed all possible virtio drivers and removed all drivers or installed sofwtares related to the physical laptop
* One of the "unknown devices" required a HyperV driver that I found on this forum
* finally took snapshots to start from there in case of failure

As a matter of fact, the VM now starts correctly
 
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