(Oops. Just noticed I didn't send this to the list....) On Monday 20 August 2012 09:41:52 Wolfram wrote: > Neal Murphy writes: > >I've been using KVM for a few years now. I've had little trouble with it. > >But now it's got me treed. I cannot get a KVM-enabled Linux 3.2.27 kernel > >to boot in qemu-kvm unless I specify '-no-kvm'. I've used a > >similarly-built and - configured 2.6.35 kernel without trouble. > > > >This is on Debian Squeeze, either using Debian's kvm package or using a > >freshly built kvm 1.1.1. The kernel does boot using qemu or booting on > >real hardware. And I've no trouble booting Linux 2.6.35. > > I'm also on squeeze, with qemu-kvm_1.1.0+dfsg-3 compiled by myself. > > For me, booting 3.2.27 in a VM guest works just fine: > > ... > > Can you please post your complete qemu command and host kernel > version? CPU: AMD quad-core Phenom II 965, not overclocked; 8GB RAM /proc/version: Linux version 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (Debian 2.6.32-45) (dannf@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:39:05 UTC 2012 kvm version (standard Squeeze qemu-kvm pkg): QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard Complete kvm command: kvm -cpu athlon -smp 4 -drive if=ide,media=disk,serial=1111,file=/scratch/scratch.img,index=0 -drive if=ide,media=cdrom,serial=3333,file=/usr/src/agcl000/distrib/build/target/isos/agcl-0.0.0.iso,index=1 -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:00:00:00,model=e1000 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tapRD0000,script=/etc/network/qemuREDup,downscript=/etc/network/qemuREDdown -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=52:54:00:00:00:01,model=e1000 -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=tapGN0000,script=/etc/network/qemuGREENup,downscript=/etc/network/qemuGREENdown -net nic,vlan=2,macaddr=52:54:00:00:00:02,model=e1000 -net tap,vlan=2,ifname=tapOR0000,script=/etc/network/qemuORANGEup,downscript=/etc/network/qemuORANGEdown -net nic,vlan=3,macaddr=52:54:00:00:00:03,model=e1000 -net tap,vlan=3,ifname=tapPU0000,script=/etc/network/qemuPURPLEup,downscript=/etc/network/qemuPURPLEdown -name 'iso:VM #0 (defaults for scratch use)' -sdl -boot menu=on -m 512 -vga std -usb -serial stdio I *may* be using a newer BIOS; IIRC (it's been a long while) the stock BIOS would give me continual errors (making the VM real slllooooowwwww). Also tried with the latest (via /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386, command is otherwise the same): QEMU emulator version 1.1.1 (qemu-kvm-1.1.1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard [Upon resend to list] 3.0.41 and 3.4.9 also hang. I'll start working my way back to 2.6.35 until I find a kernel that boots. N -- 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
