Re: [Qemu-devel] Fedora Core 2 as guest OS

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

> Fedora Core 2 image can be fetched for testing from:
> http://www.poure.com/qemu/fedora-c2.img.tar.bz2
> http://www.poure.com/qemu/fedora-c2.img.tar.bz2.md5
> 
> I read on a mailing-list that the Fedora Core 2 kernel was not compiled with 
> GCC and contains some Redhat code as usual.
> 
> Testing Fedora Core 2 may simply be a whaste of time...

This is a generic timer problem linked to the fact that a 2.6.x guest 
kernel is used. This problem especially arises if you are using a 2.4.x 
host kernel.

A workaround is to add "clock=pit" on the guest kernel command line 
(type 'linux clock=pit' as boot argument in the Fedora installer).

If you use a 2.4.x kernel, make sure you also did
'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.

Fabrice.