I have what I believe is this same problem while booting FreeBSD from GRUB2 using UEFI (grub2 and FreeBSD set to serial). I was using 12.04's kernel. Should have written down which one, but I had all the updates as of 2013 May 9. I updated the kernel to V3.9RC4 as suggested, and the problem remains.
Linux peru 3.9.0-030900rc4-generic #201303232035 SMP Sun Mar 24 00:36:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -L /usr/share/qemu-ovmf/bios -hda Fed17_FBSD.disk.cow2 -m 4096 KVM internal error. Suberror: 1 emulation failure EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000624 ESI=00000000 EDI=0000ffff EBP=00000000 ESP=0000ff6b EIP=00007000 EFL=00010006 [-----P-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 CS =a4b4 000a4b40 0000ffff 00009b00 SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 GDT= 00000000 0000ffff IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff <ff> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1157589 Title: kvm hangs for freebsd guests since raring upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/1157589/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs