Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alexander Graf
2010-09-15T17:28:16Z

On 15.09.2010, at 18:53, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm Alec Joseph Rivera, from the Philippines and new on this list.
> Anyway, I'm trying to run Lotus Foundations on kvm and it just hangs on
> bootup. It stops right after:
>
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
> mode... Ok.
>
> There's no more output after that. My invocation line is:
>
> $ qemu-kvm -cpu host -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso

Your host is probably too new for this old guest. -cpu host directly passes through this host cpu's identifiers on which the guest might choke. Please try again without -cpu.

Alex