Package: kvm Version: 55+dfsg-1 Severity: important I created a Debian root image with dd, mke2fs and cdebootstrap -f minimal. I created an fstab entry for the root filesystem, and then tried to boot the resulting image with kvm:
kvm -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-amd64 -initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-amd64 -append 'root=/dev/hda rw' -hda /tmp/root.img However, the emulated system hung while booting, and eventually showed messages like: "hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21" and "lost interrupt". After a reset of ide0 and a long delay, the system eventually came up. I investigated the boot process, and narrowed the hang down to remounting the root filesystem read-write. If I booted with the root filesystem read-write and removed the remount in the checkroot init script, the system hung with the same messages, so I think the issue occurs when accessing the disk. I encountered exactly the same problem when booting 2.6.22-3-amd64, 2.6.24-1-amd64, or a self-compiled 2.6.24-rc4 from Git commit 94545baded0bfbabdc30a3a4cb48b3db479dd6ef starting from the Debian 2.6.23-1-amd64 config. I also encountered the same problem whether I used kvm or qemu-system-x86_64. - Josh Triplett -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 (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/bash Versions of packages kvm depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii bochsbios 2.3.5-1 BIOS for the Bochs emulator ii bridge-utils 1.2-2 Utilities for configuring the Linu ii iproute 20070313-1 Professional tools to control the ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.12-1 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii vgabios 0.6a-3 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime Versions of packages kvm recommends: pn kvm-source <none> (no description available) ii linux-image-2.6. 2.6.22-6 Linux 2.6.22 image on AMD64 ii linux-image-2.6. 2.6.23-1 Linux 2.6.23 image on AMD64 ii linux-image-2.6. 2.6.24-rc4-10.00.Custom Linux kernel binary image for vers ii qemu 0.9.0+20070816-1 fast processor emulator pn vde2 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
