Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alec Joseph Rivera
2010-09-15T17:48:37Z

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Tried without -cpu, still hangs after the WP bit checking...

$ qemu-kvm -m 1G -cdrom lfs.iso

I was scanning the changelogs and read something about a
-no-kernel-irqchip. The man page doesn't say anything about it but will
try this one too..

> Alex
>

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