Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: EFI console stopped working in Qemu 0.14.0

[vagran]

Yes, you are right, identity_base is 0xfffbc000 in my case and
KVM_CAP_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR is not defined. So,
as I understand, the problem is that BIOS size is too large
and I have too old KVM module.
Also I'm not sure if I can use KVM on 32-bit host for
emulating 64-bit guests.

Best regards,
Artyom.

Jordan Justen wrote:

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 13:26, vagran <address@hidden> wrote:
  

Can you try disabling KVM?
      

Yes, it helped. Problem exists only when using KVM. Thanks.
    

One thing I suspect is that the kernel side of kvm had an issue around
this time (Ubuntu 9.10) with a bios.bin larger than 256kb.

With qemu 0.14.0, you could investigate what value is being used for
identity_base in target-i386/kvm.c:kvm_arch_init.
(Notice it will be a lower value if KVM_CAP_SET_IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR is
defined, and this will allow for a larger bios.bin.)

I think I was able to use OVMF X64 with kvm on Ubuntu 10.04, but I
don't have a system set up right now to verify this.  I am able to use
OVMF X64 with kvm on Ubuntu 10.10.

-Jordan