Re: [Qemu-devel] Fwd: Problem booting 32 bit guest on 64 bit host using kvm

[Gleb Natapov]

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.

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                        Gleb.