Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1:2.4+dfsg-5 Severity: important I able to run quest with "-enable-kvm" by previous version of qemu-system-x86 (1:2.1+dfsg-12):
$ apt-cache policy qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86: Installed: 1:2.4+dfsg-5 Candidate: 1:2.4+dfsg-5 Version table: *** 1:2.4+dfsg-5 0 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 200 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.1+dfsg-12 0 50 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages But on 1:2.4+dfsg-5 running: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1048 -cdrom /iso/debian/debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-standard.iso -enable-kvm produce black screen while $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1048 -cdrom /iso/debian/debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-standard.iso shown boot process and menu, etc. I try strace, during "black screen" there are a lot of quoted lines: $ strace -f -o ~/tmp/qemu.log qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1048 -cdrom /iso/debian/debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-standard.iso -vga vmware -enable-kvm $ cat ~/tmp/qemu.log ... 25745 select(13, [12], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) 25745 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 3, {0, 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) 25745 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 3, {0, 29358716}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) ... 25745 recvmsg(12, 0x7ffe20e20370, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) ... 25745 recvmsg(12, 0x7ffe20e20370, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) 25745 select(13, [12], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) ... So currently I use ``stable`` version as workaround. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 depends on: ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-1 ii libaio1 0.3.110-2 ii libasound2 1.0.29-1 ii libbluetooth3 5.33-1 ii libbrlapi0.6 5.2~20141018-5+b2 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libfdt1 1.4.0+dfsg-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.1-1 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.18-1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.4.1-2 ii libncurses5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libnettle6 3.1.1-4 ii libnspr4 2:4.10.9-2 ii libnss3 2:3.20-1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.33.2-2 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii libpulse0 7.0-1 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.26.dfsg1-14 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15-11 ii libseccomp2 2.2.3-2 ii libspice-server1 0.12.6-3 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.20-1 ii libusbredirparser1 0.7-1 ii libuuid1 2.27-3 ii libvdeplug2 2.3.2+r586-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxen-4.6 4.6.0-1 ii libxenstore3.0 4.4.1-9+deb8u1 ii qemu-system-common 1:2.4+dfsg-5 ii seabios 1.8.2-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 recommends: ii qemu-utils 1:2.4+dfsg-5 Versions of packages qemu-system-x86 suggests: ii kmod 21-1 pn ovmf <none> ii qemu-block-extra 1:2.4+dfsg-5 ii samba 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4 pn sgabios <none> pn vde2 <none> -- no debconf information -- Best regards!