Re: KVM crashes when booting from Ubuntu ISO images.

[Dor Laor <dor.laor@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:35 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Alexey Eremenko
> <alexey.eremenko@qumranet.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >Is this caused by KVM not supporting real mode on Intel hosts, or is it
> > caused by some other reason?
> >
> >  Yes, it is correct. Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 won't work anytime soon.
> >
> >  There are few workarounds:
> >  1. use text-mode bootloader
> >  2. use special patches for KVM (not included in mainline, but in Alexander
> > Graf's tree)
> >    (this is ugly hack, so it was not accepted into mainline KVM)
> >  3. use special patches for Graphical GFX GRUB
> 
> Any pointers to where I can get these patches.
> 

Get http://codemonkey.ws/gfxboot-disable/ and run it on a copy of the
iso image. It automatically switches to text mode.
btw: the problem is not Ubuntu but KVM over Intel, not being able to
cope with big real mode.

> Thanks,
> Mohammed
> 
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