Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:34:24PM +0100, Pierre Riteau wrote: >> I think I traced back the issue to the switch from Bochs BIOS to Seabios. By forcing the usage of Bochs BIOS 5f08bb45861f54be478b25075b90d2406a0f8bb3 works, while it dies without the -bios override. >> Unfortunately, newer versions don't seem to work with Bochs BIOS. >> >> Upgrading the host kernel to 2.6.32 (Debian Squeeze) solves the issue. No problem on Fedora 12 as well. > > Even Linux 2.6.31 stopped working as a host for me since that commit. At least kvm-kmod-2.6.31.6 worked fine here, just recently run it with various versions of qemu-kvm. Does it bail out at the same address like Pierre? Looking at the code that fails, ljmp $0xf000,$0xdeb5, it might be affected by the KVM commit ee3d29e8be (KVM: x86 emulator: fix jmp far decoding (opcode 0xea)) which predates 2.6.31.1... Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
