Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:32:39PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Jacques Landru wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Same problem here >>> >>> qemu-kvm-0.12.x hangs if I have at the same time "-no-kvm" and >>> "file=essai-slitaz.raw,if=ide,index=0,boot=on" sometime with the >>> message below >>> >>> but >>> >>> qemu-kvm with "-no-kvm" and without "boot=on" option for the file >>> parameter, works >>> qemu-kvm with "boot=on" option and kvm enable works. (kvm-kmod is 2.6.32.7) >> I have to confirm this issue: Something badly crashes here as well, >> either grub or the extboot ROM or Seabios. >> >> Does anyone has a good idea what makes the difference here, ie. where to >> start debugging? >> > May be TCG interprets something incorrectly in extboot.bin. Sounds > unlikely, but symptoms look like this is the case. Looks like the old story again: extboot tries to write to ROM (old_int13 and old_int19 variables). That happens to work due to KVM limitations, but breaks once true protection is established. Don't we have some heap managed by Seabios that extension ROMs can use? 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