Description of problem: When I try to boot ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso with KVM, I get an exception 6 before I am able to enter boot loader's menu. I suspect its graphics mode change might be to blame. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-53-1.fc9 Additional info: $ qemu-kvm -boot d -cdrom ~/ubuntu/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso Warning: No DNS servers found exception 6 (0) rax 0000000000000469 rbx 0000000000800001 rcx 0000000000004300 rdx 0000000000000000 rsi 000000000005961d rdi 000000000005961c rsp 00000000fffaa9cc rbp 000000000000200c r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 rip 000000000000b04b rflags 00033006 cs 4143 (00041430/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) ds 4004 (00040040/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) es 4004 (00040040/0000ffff 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 3002 (00030020/0000ffff 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 (08c00000/00002088 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 40920/47 idt 0/ffff cr0 60000010 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 code: 0f 17 3e 28 08 02 28 3e 01 17 0f 17 46 28 08 02 28 0e 01 17 --> 0f 17 3e 28 08 02 28 5d 01 17 0f 28 08 02 28 5e 01 17 0f 17 3b 28 08 02 28 5f 01 17 0f 28 Aborted (core dumped) $ I am putting Daniel into CC, as I first treid that with virt-manager, and was unable to find out why wasn't I able to start the VM. virt-manager should report such failure and possibly the kvm output in some way to the user and suggest opening a bugzilla ticket.
This may be the same as bug 427858
*** Bug 427858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As noted in bug 427858 this also occurs with openSUSE-10.3 LiveCD.
As well as with alpha of openSUSE 11 after being installed. Jeremy: Would it make sense if we reported it upstream?
Already known upstream, but it's actually a bug in gfxboot, not kvm. It's trying to use code which cannot work under VT -- see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1798813&group_id=180599
I check and there are bugs filed in both Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gfxboot/+bug/140713 OpenSUSE: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307194