Re: no quit on halt for linux 2.6.23 x86 guest

Denys Duchier
2007-10-29T17:05:06Z

"Luca Tettamanti" <kronos.it-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Try acpi=force on the kernel command line (guest). QEmu doesn't expose
> a DMI block and Linux guests usually don't enable ACPI since they're
> unable to check BIOS year (all BIOSes shipped before 2001 are
> blacklisted because they tend to be very broken).

drat! thanks! indeed disabling the check in the kernel works and that's what I
had done with 2.6.22, but I had completely forgotten about it in the mean time.
sorry about the noise :-(

Cheers,

--Denys