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[Xen-users] Xen 4.8, qemu 2.12.0 - Live CDs fail to boot from 64-bit kernels
Stephen Oberholtzer
2018-10-07 21:31:52 UTC
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Okay, I've been struggling with this for ages, and have enough data to come
back here.

* Xen 4.8 ('xl info' outputs 4.8.4-pre, but it's Debian
version 4.8.3+xsa267+shim4.10.1+xsa267-1+deb9u9)
* QEMU emulator version 2.12.0 (Debian 1:2.12+dfsg-3)

Trying to boot a Knoppix or Debian Live ISO inside an HVM fails: CD-ROM
emulation fails.
What's extremely strange is that 32-bit kernels boot just fine, it's just
64-bit kernels that have a problem.

Furthermore, the kernels don't exhibit this problem if I run qemu directly
(no Xen acceleration).

Having libata dump the IDENTIFY data had a most curious result: all zeroes.
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