On 15.09.2010, at 18:53, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list. > Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on > bootup. It stops right after: > > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor > mode... Ok. > > There's no more output after that. My invocation line is: > > $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso Your host is probably too new for this old guest. -cpu host directly passes through this host cpu's identifiers on which the guest might choke. Please try again without -cpu. Alex -- 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