This is (very likely) related to this /old/ bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg02521.html
Could you try the patch at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu- devel/2013-05/msg00248.html ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200212 Title: qemu-system-arm aborts in lsi_soft_reset Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Qemu compiled from master branch (fetched on 11th Jul 2013, qemu- system-arm -version prints "QEMU emulator version 1.5.50, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard") running on OSX 10.6.8 crashes during Debian 7.1 netboot installation with error: "Assertion failed: (QTAILQ_EMPTY(&s->queue)), function lsi_soft_reset, file hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c, line 351." Steps to reproduce: 1. Get kernel and initrd from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian7.1/main/installer-armel/20130613/images/versatile/netboot/ . 2. Create a hard disk image with qemu-img: qemu-img create -f qcow2 debian.qcow2 2G. 3. Run arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-versatile \ -initrd initrd-3.2.0-4-versatile-netboot -drive file=debian.qcow2,index=0,if=scsi,media=disk \ -append "console=ttyAMA0" -nographic -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:22080-:80,vlan=0 \ -net nic,vlan=0 -smp 1,cores=4 The installation should proceed past partition setup and start downloading packages onto hard disk. After several tries I've never got past 31% with the package downloads before getting Abort trap with "Assertion failed: (QTAILQ_EMPTY(&s->queue)), function lsi_soft_reset, file hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c, line 351." message. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1200212/+subscriptions
