qemu completely broken with current version of bochbios

Is your image in NTFS? I have problems with qemu and the ntfs driver of winxp

From outside:
$ fdisk -lu xp.iso
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk xp.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
xp.iso1 * 63 6128639 3064288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

From inside:
$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 3045 MB, 3145728000 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 761 cylinders, total 6144000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 6128639 3064288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

I'm experiencing this issue as well. Worked fine until upgrade to Gutsy.

I moved an image from an Ubuntu 6.10 box to 7.10 and it fails to boot. When I press F8 and choose Safe Mode, it hangs at about 33% of the (text-based) progress meter.

I think I have the same problem. I had a look at the package and noticed that it doesn't use the BIOS which ships with qemu but the one from bochs instead. Replacing the file /usr/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest with the BIOS image from the latest bochs CVS snapshot fixed it for me. So it seems the bochs package needs an update.

Is someone working on this?

OK. To help out a bit I reassigned the bug to bochs, and gave the current bochsbios package from Debian/testing [1] a try. It works just fine for me on amd64. So all that's need is a new merge from Debian.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/bochsbios

I just tested with version 2.3+20070705, and it works for me on i386 as well.

I experienced the same problem with Gutsy, replacing the BOCHS-BIOS fixed the problem.

I can't seem to start up Ubuntu Gutsy or Linux Mint in qemu either. Is that to do with the BIOS as well?

Nevermind, I installed the new Bochs BIOS and it boots up fine now. ^^

Yes, installing bochsbios from hardy ( http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/bochs/bochsbios_2.3+20070705-2ubuntu1_all.deb ) also made my XP-VM work again! Thanks Daniel, for the hint!

I had issues with a win2k image on a gutsy host.
Installing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/bochs/bochsbios_2.3.5-1ubuntu1_all.deb fixed my problem. (the package bochsbios_2.3+20070705-2ubuntu1_all.deb wasn't available anymore)

Anyway, keep up the good work guys.

Kind regards,

Michael Van Wesenbeeck

Seems like I still got the problem with bochsbios-qemu 2.3.5-1ubuntu1 (hardy) when I try to run FreeBSD with kqemu.

This solved my problem with Zenwalk 5.0. Previously, it worked with kvm but not qemu.

When trying to install hardy server alpha3 into a qemu session on a amd64 host, it kept failing when trying to detect the virtual cdrom. Upgrading from gutsy's bochsbios-2.3-2etch1 to lenny's bochsbios-2.3.5-1 fixed the cdrom detection problem.

Install this package: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/bochs/bochsbios_2.3.6-2ubuntu1_all.deb

So, are there any plans to backport this to Gutsy? It seems strange that a fix has been in Hardy and for quite some time now, and yet Gutsy still doesn't have it.

I can hardly imagine that "stable users" want the old package, seeing as it doesn't work.

David Benjamin wrote:
> So, are there any plans to backport this to Gutsy? It seems strange that
> a fix has been in Hardy and for quite some time now, and yet Gutsy still
> doesn't have it.
>
> I can hardly imagine that "stable users" want the old package, seeing as
> it doesn't work.

Well, a broken package is very stable... :) Yes, in this case, the
system is what is broken.

Fixed (very) long ago