On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > >
Thanks Dor. I was also facing another issue. I installed MINIX and GNU/HURD on other VMs, and when I try to boot from their harddisk images I get a similar message (but with a different exception number) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
