saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Saucy) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251470 Title: Guest not working in KVM mode but does in TCG mode Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in qemu source package in Saucy: Won't Fix Bug description: Qemu: 1.5.0 (Debian 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5) Host: Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64 (Intel Core i7-950) Guest: FreeBSD 9.2 RELEASE x86_64 As initially reported here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2013-November/msg00066.html I was told that this is a bug in Qemu. Basically this command works: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda images/FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64.img But this one doesn't: qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -hda images/FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64.img FreeBSD is stuck after the bootloader: Booting... CPU doesn't support long mode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1251470/+subscriptions