I ran qemu from command line with debugcon: # /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -M pc-0.12 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name opensolaris -uuid 7efc6da0-e40f-a1c5-0e85-763dc7ff209c -nodefaults -rtc base=localtime -boot dc -device lsi,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -drive file=Korona4.4.5.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/dev/sdd,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -sdl -vga vmware -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios Start bios (version pre-0.6.1-20100713_085324-titi) Ram Size=0x40000000 (0x0000000000000000 high) CPU Mhz=2814 PCI: pci_bios_init_bus_rec bus = 0x0 PIIX3/PIIX4 init: elcr=00 0c PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x00: vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x1237 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x08: vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x7000 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x09: vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x7010 region 4: 0x0000c000 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x0a: vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x7020 region 4: 0x0000c020 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x0b: vendor_id=0x8086 device_id=0x7113 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x10: vendor_id=0x15ad device_id=0x0405 region 0: 0x0000c040 region 1: 0xf0000000 region 2: 0xf1000000 PCI: bus=0 devfn=0x30: vendor_id=0x1000 device_id=0x0012 region 0: 0x0000c100 region 1: 0xf1010000 region 2: 0xf1012000 Found 2 cpu(s) max supported 2 cpu(s) MP table addr=0x000fdbe0 MPC table addr=0x000fdbf0 size=244 SMBIOS ptr=0x000fdbc0 table=0x3ffffec0 ACPI tables: RSDP=0x000fdb90 RSDT=0x3fffde10 Scan for VGA option rom Running option rom at c000:0003 Turning on vga text mode console Starting SeaBIOS (version pre-0.6.1-20100713_085324-titi)
UHCI init on dev 00:01.2 (io=c020) Found 0 lpt ports Found 0 serial ports ATA controller 0 at 1f0/3f4/0 (irq 14 dev 9) ATA controller 1 at 170/374/0 (irq 15 dev 9) ata0-0: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (698 GiBytes) drive 0x000fdb40: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=1465149168 ata1-0: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 DVD/CD PS2 keyboard initialized WARNING - Timeout at wait_qh:218! Timeout on wait_qh 0x3ffef990 (td=0x3ffef8f0 s=400000 c=c1/0) All threads complete. Scan for option roms Running option rom at ca00:0003 ebda moved from 9fc00 to 9f400 Returned 53248 bytes of ZoneHigh e820 map has 7 items: 0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 = 1 1: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 3: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffd000 = 1 4: 000000003fffd000 - 0000000040000000 = 2 5: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 = 2 6: feffd00000000000 - ff00100000000000 = 0 enter handle_19: NULL Booting from DVD/CD... 1368MB medium detected Booting from 0000:7c00 Why are PCHS and LCHS both wrong? -- OpenSolaris guest fails to see the Solaris partitions of a physical disk in qemu-kvm-9999 (GIT) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618533 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: # qemu-kvm --version QEMU emulator version 0.13.50 (qemu-kvm-devel), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard The following disk is presented to guest as IDE disk with /dev/sdd as path. # fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7f3a03aa Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 63 7887914 3943926 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/sdd2 7887915 980736119 486424102+ 83 Linux /dev/sdd3 * 980736120 1083150494 51207187+ bf Solaris /dev/sdd4 1083150495 1465144064 190996785 5 Extended /dev/sdd5 1083150558 1107746009 12297726 83 Linux /dev/sdd6 1107746073 1465144064 178698996 7 HPFS/NTFS The prtvtoc output is attached from both VirtualBox and Qemu-KVM. As can be seen in the screenshots, a valid Solaris partition table (which is inside the /dev/sdd3, marked 'bf' in Linux fdisk output) is not seen in Qemu but seen in Virtualbox. This makes the guest unbootable in Qemu because the root FS is not found but its bootable in Virtualbox.
