From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Boot Problem (and fix) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:32:52 +0200 Message-ID: <49130E24.1040603@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: the uni Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37202 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752041AbYKFPdE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:33:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: the uni wrote: > Starting with version 77 (I believe) I can no longer boot any of my > virtual machines. Just hangs at "press f12 for boot menu". > > My specs: core2duo, gentoo 2008 stable/current,x86_64, 6gigs ram. > > I managed to solve the problem by replacing the bios.bin in > /usr/share/kvm/ with an older one. It seems to have been broken by: > > commit 0ad566e0d8780b465f8af17926ec7b73418ef076 > date: 09/23/2008 > > I've seen a few other people with the same issue. Hope this helps someone > > What are the parameters you use to launch your guests (memory size, smp)? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function