Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm userspace release 6

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

  Hi,

> I'm not sure what you mean. The -nographic option doesn't help, and Suse
> doesn't even come far enough to switch to graphics mode. It dies in the
> bootloader.

both isolinux and grub fail to switch into gfx mode, which likely is
caused by either incomplete real mode emulation or big real mode.

Workaround for grub: just turn off the eye candy, comment the gfxmenu
line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Kicking the installation is a bit harder as you can't just go and edit
the isolinux.cfg on the cdrom.  One way is to use normal qemu (without
kvm acceleration) for installation and fixing up menu.lst, then go ahead
with the kvm version ...

reproduce: fetch the boot iso[1], boot with "-cdrom /path/to/mini.iso
-boot d"

cheers,
  Gerd

[1]
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-i386-mini.iso

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>

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