On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:24:16AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On an amd64 laptop (debian unstable) I've been using qemu with the
> following arguments (with windows XP guest):
> 
> ARGS_GEN="-enable-kvm -drive file=$1,if=virtio -boot order=c -m 512
> -rtc base=localtime"
> ARGS_NET="-net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no"
> ARGS_BIOS0="-smbios file=/home/vasqueja/.qemu_kvm/bios_bin/smbios_type_0.bin"
> ARGS_BIOS1="-smbios file=/home/vasqueja/.qemu_kvm/bios_bin/smbios_type_1.bin"
> ARGS_VGA="-vga std"
> ARGS_AUDIO="-soundhw ac97"
> ARGS_USB="-usb -usbdevice tablet"
> ARGS_CPU="-cpu athlon"
> ARGS_NIC="-net nic,model=virtio"

> qemu $ARGS_GEN $ARGS_NET $ARGS_BIOS0 $ARGS_BIOS1 $ARGS_VGA $ARGS_AUDIO
> $ARGS_USB $ARGS_CPU $ARGS_NIC

i know you've tried a variety of commandline options, but what about just using
the defaults with -enable-kvm? 


> qemu: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "vgabios-stdvga.bin"

this is bug#614169, and as far as i know, shouldn't really be a problem.


> qemu: virtio_ioport_write: unexpected address 0x13 value 0x1

...

> Notice as I'm using nouveau xorg driver version
> 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2, I can only use linux-image 2.6.37-1
> (unstable default) and can't try the 2.6.32, so I can't test the kvm modules
> on older kernel...

do you have other hardware you can test with? -enable-kvm seems to work for me
on i386, at least. 

are you able to boot a different OS? i've only tested with Debian/GNU Linux or
Debian/GNU kFreeBSD.


live well,
  vagrant



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to