Avi & Guys, Thanks for your patience, I just got the sucker booting by switching the -M option to be an isapc system. And I was wrong about it being a Gateway, it's a packard Bell system running Windows 3.1, talk about a blast from the past. I think I still have the keyboard around somehwere. Anyway, here's my commanto run it, with npt=0 in the kvm_amd modules. > kvm -no-acpi -no-hpet -cpu 486 -hda hda-caroline486.image -M isapc \ -m 4 -vga std and I'll see about changing the defaults back on. Thanks, John -- -- 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