Bugs item #1666308, was opened at 2007-02-22 16:09
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: David A. Madore (davidamadore)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Freedos hangs kvm-14 qemu on Intel CPU

Initial Comment:
Host system summary: Intel CPU (Pentium D 3.40GHz) running Linux 2.6.20.1 in 
64-bit (x86_64) mode, using KVM module and QEMU from kvm-14 release.  Otherwise 
generally using the Debian Etch distribution.

Try to launch Freedos installation using "-hda harddrive.img -cdrom 
fdbasecd.iso -boot d -m 64 -localtime", where fdbasecd.iso is Freedos 1.0's 
base install CD from <URL: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ > (and 
harddrive.img is an 80MB file full of zeros, but this is unimportant).  Using 
bochsbios-2.3-2 and vgabios-0.6a-1 (both packaged by Debian).

Symptom: virtual machine boots, but qemu stops soon after entering Freedos 
installer (as soon as "install to hard drive" is chosen, or something).

"Stopped" means that the window title bar is updated to add "[stopped]" after 
QEMU title, and the virtual machine no longer runs (on host system, the QEMU 
process is in T state, using 0% CPU).  The QEMU monitor is still accessible, 
but "cont" has no effect.  "info registers" does not seem to show anything 
strange.

The same QEMU running with -no-kvm works fine, so it's more likely a KVM or 
KVM-QEMU interface issue, not with QEMU.  The same QEMU+KVM boots a Knoppix 5.0 
CD without problem, so it's not like a complete failure to run anything.  Using 
kvm-12 instead of kvm-14 gives a QEMU segfault at the same point (rather than 
just going in "stopped" mode).

Reported on freenode's #irc channel on 2007-02-22 15:40+0100.  Someone 
confirmed having the same problem on a 32-bit kernel+userland with FC6 (so it's 
not x86_64-specific, nor Debian-specific), but also with an Intel CPU.

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