[Qemu-devel] [Bug 893208] Re: qemu on ARM hosts can't boot i386 image

[PeteVine]

I tried installing openbsd yesterday from an official image to another
raw image disk - no problem and the installed system works flawlessly.
Hurd also boots fine (via grub) along with a few toy x86 kernels.

It almost begins to look as if the raw images are ok whereas the qcow2
format is the problem somehow.  Had I tried those other images first I'd
be convinced running x86 on arm hosts poses no problem at all - how is
it even possible?

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Title:
  qemu on ARM hosts can't boot i386 image

Status in QEMU:
  New
Status in Linaro QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  If you apply some workarounds for bug 870990, bug 883133 and bug
  883136 QEMU still cannot boot the i386
  debian_squeeze_i386_standard.qcow2 image from
  http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/i386/ -- grub starts to boot
  but something causes the system to reset just before display of the
  blue-background grub menu, so we go round in a loop forever. This
  image boots OK on i386 hosted qemu so this indicates some kind of ARM-
  host specific bug.

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