I tried installing openbsd yesterday from an official image to another raw image disk - no problem and the installed system works flawlessly. Hurd also boots fine (via grub) along with a few toy x86 kernels.
It almost begins to look as if the raw images are ok whereas the qcow2 format is the problem somehow. Had I tried those other images first I'd be convinced running x86 on arm hosts poses no problem at all - how is it even possible? -- 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
