From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqKoT-0002zd-PE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:40:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqKoS-0003Ub-Sa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:40:41 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqKoS-0003UX-Kf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:40:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:40:37 +0200 From: Gleb Natapov Message-ID: <20130102094037.GQ17584@redhat.com> References: <20130101100818.GC12402@redhat.com> <20130101113019.GD12402@redhat.com> <20130101141719.GE12402@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Problem booting 32 bit guest on 64 bit host using kvm List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark Blakeney Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 05:35:44PM +1000, Mark Blakeney wrote: > Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) kernel is 3.2.0.35.40. Too hard to downgrade kermel. > So, as far as I understand, you moved from 3.2.0 32bit kernel to 3.5.0/3.7.0 64bit kernel and things stopped working. It is hard to conclude that this is 32 vs 64 bit problem from that. Can you compile 3.2 64bit kernel and try it? > I should mention that I installed current qemu 1.3.0 from source but > made no difference. I also had installed 1.3.0 from source on my older > ubuntu system (trying to fix a problem which I later solved another > way) and it worked fine. So I don't think this is an issue with > older/later versions of qemu. > > Another very odd thing is that about one in 40 attempts the image will > boot in kvm. Completely random though it seems. Always boots if I add > "-no-kvm". > > -- > Mark Blakeney. -- Gleb.