[Qemu-devel] Re: Regression: QEMU 0.8.2 (and CVS) fails to boot a debian arm

[Martin Guy]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:14:44PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I have setup a debian arm (unstable) under QEMU, until now using version
> > 0.8.1 and a root on NFS.
> >
> > I wanted to use the new SCSI card emulation introduced in QEMU 0.8.2,
> > but it fails to boot (still with root on NFS). It freeze, the last
> > message being:
> >
> > INIT: version 2.86 booting
>
> I think I have found the problem. Actually the system is not frozen, but
> just very slow. I now get while booting the kernel:
>  Calibrating delay loop... 12.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=60800)
> instead of
>  Calibrating delay loop... 486.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=2433024)

I suffered the same exact symptom, except that in my case it was
caused by a kernel upgrade and fixed by using a kernel that was
2.6.16-rc3 or later while vanilla 2.6.16 gave this incredible
slowdown.
That may or may not be relevant...

    M