The "holdup" is simply that nobody who is interested in this issue has written a patch like that Paolo proposed in comment #13. (Mostly people either want to run ARM or other guest images in emulation on x86, or they're running ARM images with hardware virtualization on ARM hardware. Trying to run x86 images in emulation on ARM hosts is much less common.)
-- 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: Confirmed 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
