Hi, With this small disk image: http://psy.jim.sh/~jim/tmp/diskimage.gz and the new qemu-kvm-0.12.2: $ kvm --version QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.2 (qemu-kvm-0.12.2), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard I can successfully boot to a "grub> " prompt with: $ kvm -drive file=diskimage,boot=on However, if kvm gets disabled: $ kvm -no-kvm -drive file=diskimage,boot=on then the boot hangs at "GRUB Loading, please wait..." and consumes 100% CPU. -jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html