When I trying to specify 64-bit EFI BIOS nothing happens on VGA nor serial console. It seems that CPU is continuously restarting. Build and host system is Ubuntu 9.10: Linux AST-mobile 2.6.31-22-generic-pae #73-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 18:39:01 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Qemu 0.14.0 was built with the following configuration options: ../src/configure --prefix=$PREFIX --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --source-path=../src --enable-kvm --extra-cflags=-I$PREFIX/include --extra-ldflags=-L$PREFIX/lib And launched: qemu-system-x86_64 -L $PHOBOS_PREFIX/share/qemu/phobos64 -bios OVMF.fd -m 768 -cpu core2duo -vga cirrus -monitor stdio -serial tcp::666,server -s -hdb $PHOBOS_PREFIX/share/qemu/phobos.disk -usb -enable-kvm OVMF X64 is r11337. "log cpu_reset" provides this information (continuously in a loop): CPU Reset (CPU 0) EAX=00000100 EBX=fffee0e4 ECX=c0000080 EDX=00000000 ESI=fffee2c4 EDI=00005042 EBP=fffee000 ESP=00000000 EIP=ffffff21 EFL=00010082 [--S----] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] CS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09b00 DPL=0 CS32 [-RA] SS =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] DS =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] FS =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] GS =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA] LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy GDT= ffffff80 0000001f IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=40000023 CR2=00000000 CR3=ffffe000 CR4=00000660 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 CCS=00000000 CCD=00000000 CCO=DYNAMIC EFER=0000000000000000 FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00000000 FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000 FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000 FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000 FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000 XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000 XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000 Best regards, Artyom. Jordan Justen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:02, vagran wrote: > >> I have taken EFI BIOS image from >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=OVMF >> 32-bit version works perfectly. However 64-bit version for some reason >> doesn't work on >> qemu-system-x86_64. >> > > Hi. I was wondering if you could describe the OVMF issue you saw with > qemu-system-x86_64. > > I tried 0.14.0 with OVMF X64 (r11337), and it was able to boot to the EFI shell. > > I did see an issue while booting the 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 live-cd, but > occurred on both the legacy (seabios) and uefi (ovmf) firmware. With > kvm 0.14.0, in both cases the OS boots most of the way, but the > graphics do not start properly when X starts. > > Thanks, > > -Jordan >