requires -cpu qemu32 on i386 host to boot karmic PAE kernels

Binary package hint: kvm

After installing karmic-server-i386.iso from 2009-06-29 in kvm, kvm is then unable to boot the resulting installation. There is no output from the guest kernel at all, even without the 'quiet' option. Using the option '-cpu qemu32' makes it work, as does using qemu rather than kvm.

I found these Red Hat bugs which I *speculate* (but can't prove, so, triagers, please don't open bug watches unless you're sure) may be related:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499596
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504787

I tried qemu-kvm from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/virt-daily-upstream at Dustin Kirkland's suggestion, but this fared no better.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 30 00:50:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D830
Package: kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu14
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-9-generic root=UUID=6df978ed-c024-49d7-9157-bdd7bd05153d ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
SourcePackage: kvm
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 06/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0HN341
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd06/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD830:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HN341:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D830
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.