Hi, I am inexperienced using QEMU and hoping somebody here can help me.
Some time ago I cloned a disk image of an old Solaris legacy system I work on and was able to successfully boot and use it within QEMU. Recently I upgraded my host from 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 to a new box running Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64. Now I find that the qemu command results in that guest failing to boot from the MBR. The emulated PC just reports "no active boot partition".
The command I have been using is:
qemu-system-i386 \
-machine pc,accel=kvm \
-m 256M \
-vga std \
-net nic,vlan=1,model=pcnet \
-net user,vlan=1,hostfwd=::8050-$GUEST:22 \
-hda "$DISK"
I find that if I change to "accel=tcg" in above command then the guest will boot ok but I find my host works much harder & slower than when I use kvm. Is there a qemu option so I can use kvm but get around this guest boot issue?
Thanks,
--
Mark.