Re: [Qemu-devel] -kernel-kqemu option causes kernel-panic

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hello,
> Is the cvs-repo of qemu down?
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/qemu co 
> qemu
> gives me a timeout after a few minutes.
> 
> The qemu release 0.9.0 does not work for me.
> 1. DMA not activable in guest
> 2. kernel-kqemu causes kernel panic (not the debian package)
> 3. The shutdown does not work  

That sounds exactly like what happens when your bios is not the same bios that qemu is using. Are 
you properly installing your bios files?? Make sure you update them every time you update qemu.

brad@bklaptop2:~$ ls /usr/local/share/qemu/ -l
total 732
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131072 2007-02-12 09:20 bios.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 2006-05-23 16:24 keymaps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 2006-09-28 19:24 linux_boot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524288 2006-09-28 19:24 ppc_rom.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  37888 2006-09-28 19:24 vgabios.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35328 2006-09-28 19:24 vgabios-cirrus.bin

Brad
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