Re: [Qemu-devel] recent QEMU-w64 does not load multiboot kernels by default

[Stefan Weil]

On 16.04.19 09:41, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:20:42PM -0700, Max Filippov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> recent qemu-system-i386 for w64 (e.g. one installed from
>> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/qemu-w64-setup-20190218.exe )
>> refuses to load multiboot kernel by default:
>>
>>   "C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe" -kernel p:\tmp\kernel
>>   C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe: Error loading
>> uncompressed kernel without PVH ELF Note
>>
>> Adding -M pc-i440fx-3.1 (as well as most other machines, but not
>> pc-i440fx-4.0) fixes that. On linux host the same kernel gets loaded
>> either way (with or without -M).
> 
> Hi Max,
> there was an issue when we introduced PVH support and we fixed it. [1]
> Maybe the build that you used (20190218) was compiled before the merge of
> that fix (20190311).
> 
> Can you try to build the 4.0-rc3?
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefano


The build of qemu-w64-setup-20190218.exe only contains patches merged up
to that date, so the fix is missing.

The next release of the installer will include the fix.

Kind regards
Stefan