What a funny coincidence, just before getting all of that bug email (telepathy?), I decided to also try a debian hurd image, but it immediately aborts:
qemu-system-i386: qemu-coroutine-lock.c:91: qemu_co_queue_restart_all: Assertion `qemu_in_coroutine()' failed. Aborted Is this known and/or deserving a separate issue? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893208 Title: qemu on ARM hosts can't boot i386 image Status in QEMU: New Status in Linaro QEMU: New Bug description: If you apply some workarounds for bug 870990, bug 883133 and bug 883136 QEMU still cannot boot the i386 debian_squeeze_i386_standard.qcow2 image from http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/i386/ -- grub starts to boot but something causes the system to reset just before display of the blue-background grub menu, so we go round in a loop forever. This image boots OK on i386 hosted qemu so this indicates some kind of ARM- host specific bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/893208/+subscriptions
