kvm-60 - blank screen

[Sean Kellogg <skellogg@gmail.com>]

I don't usually post to devel lists because I tend to be entirely too 
uneducated to really understand what's going on...  but I'm just so close to 
getting this setup that I would feel silly to sit around and wait for someone 
else to fix it.

Using kvm-60 from debian/unstable I have been able to install and setup a win 
2k3 server image...  with the catch being I can only do so running the 
option -no-kvm. As you can imagine, this bring a new meaning to the word 
slow.

Without -no-kvm I get an empty black box and nothing else...  this was the 
same when booting off a debian install disk. There is all manner of CPU 
activity, but no terminal output and no other indication of what's going 
wrong. I tried running it with strace, which produced a very tight loop and 
nothing else (reproduced below). I've scouered the archives and other 
resources and found nothing similar to my problem, and aside waiting for 
kvm-61 to hit unstable, I'm at a loss as to what to try next.

Here is the command I am using:
kvm -hda win2k3.img -m 256 -no-acpi -localtime -no-kvm

The system is an amd64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ and I have confirmed r/w 
access to /dev/kvm for the user running kvm. Not sure if there is anything 
else that is helpful, but just let me know and I'll get it for you right 
away.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide,
Sean

------- strace ouput -------

rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 0})           = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1203464959, 420155}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})       = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879911800}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879931919}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879951719}) = 0
timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0
timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 250000}}, NULL) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880019919}) = 0
select(8, [7], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880069479}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880090439}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880110479}) = 0
timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 120040}}) = 0
ioctl(5, 0xae80, 0)                     = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], {si_signo=SIGALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_pid=0, 
si_uid=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}}, 0xff9021b8, 8) = 14
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, NULL, {0x804db90, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 0})           = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1203464959, 420690}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})       = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880444477}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880464437}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880484277}) = 0
timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0
timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3295000}}, NULL) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880550277}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880570157}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880589876}) = 0
timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3198681}}) = 0
timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3190000}}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(5, 0xae80, 0)                     = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], {si_signo=SIGALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_pid=0, 
si_uid=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}}, 0xff9021b8, 8) = 14
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, NULL, {0x804db90, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)

...and so on and so on like that forever...

-- 
Sean Kellogg
e: skellogg@gmail.com

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