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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Regression: QEMU 0.8.2 (and CVS) fails to boot a
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:14:44PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> I have setup a debian arm (unstable) under QEMU, until now using version
>> 0.8.1 and a root on NFS.
>>
>> I wanted to use the new SCSI card emulation introduced in QEMU 0.8.2,
>> but it fails to boot (still with root on NFS). It freeze, the last
>> message being:
>>
>> INIT: version 2.86 booting
>
>I think I have found the problem. Actually the system is not frozen, but
>just very slow. I now get while booting the kernel:
>  Calibrating delay loop... 12.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=60800)
>instead of
>  Calibrating delay loop... 486.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=2433024)

I suffered the same exact symptom, except that in my case it was
caused by a kernel upgrade and fixed by using a kernel that was
2.6.16-rc3 or later while vanilla 2.6.16 gave this incredible
slowdown.
That may or may not be relevant...

     M