Re: [Qemu-devel] recent QEMU-w64 does not load multiboot kernels by default

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:20:42PM -0700, Max Filippov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> recent qemu-system-i386 for w64 (e.g. one installed from
> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/qemu-w64-setup-20190218.exe )
> refuses to load multiboot kernel by default:
> 
>   "C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe" -kernel p:\tmp\kernel
>   C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe: Error loading
> uncompressed kernel without PVH ELF Note
> 
> Adding -M pc-i440fx-3.1 (as well as most other machines, but not
> pc-i440fx-4.0) fixes that. On linux host the same kernel gets loaded
> either way (with or without -M).

Hi Max,
there was an issue when we introduced PVH support and we fixed it. [1]
Maybe the build that you used (20190218) was compiled before the merge of
that fix (20190311).

Can you try to build the 4.0-rc3?

Cheers,
Stefano


[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1042337/