Description of problem: When I want to network boot the KVM guest via PXE, qemu-kvm abort()s and leaves a core dump. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-35-2.fc7 kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 (I have "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU" processor, so I use kvm_intel module) Steps to Reproduce: Any scenario that loads any of pxe* roms, say $ qemu-kvm /dev/zero -boot n or $ qemu-kvm /dev/zero -option-rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin or $ qemu-kvm /dev/zero -option-rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-lance.bin Actual results: $ qemu-kvm /dev/zero -boot n Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel or type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root. Warning: No DNS servers found exception 13 (0) rax 000000000000f001 rbx 000000000000d713 rcx 0000000000000001 rdx 0000000000000000 rsi 00000000ffff0096 rdi 000000000008f7f4 rsp 000000000000ffb8 rbp 000000000000ffcc r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000000a45 rflags 00033002 cs f000 (000f0000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) es 07c0 (00007c00/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) tr 0000 (08858000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) gdt fa580/30 idt 0/3ff cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Aborted (core dumped) $ Expected results: Network-boot the guest. Additional info: If the dump above is not enough to spot the problem (i.e. the guilty instruction or whatever, I just don't understand this sort of things), I'd be glad to either provide the core dump or try to suck some information from it. Also, qemu (without KVM) works perfectly.
Shame on me, I didn't wait for the bugzilla query to finish, and after I filed this I saw it found another bug on this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250620 ***