On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:35 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Alexey Eremenko > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Is this caused by KVM not supporting real mode on Intel hosts, or is it > > caused by some other reason? > > > > Yes, it is correct. Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 won't work anytime soon. > > > > There are few workarounds: > > 1. use text-mode bootloader > > 2. use special patches for KVM (not included in mainline, but in Alexander > > Graf's tree) > > (this is ugly hack, so it was not accepted into mainline KVM) > > 3. use special patches for Graphical GFX GRUB > > Any pointers to where I can get these patches. >
Get http://codemonkey.ws/gfxboot-disable/ and run it on a copy of the iso image. It automatically switches to text mode. btw: the problem is not Ubuntu but KVM over Intel, not being able to cope with big real mode. > Thanks, > Mohammed > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
