According to comment #1, this has been fixed with kernel 3.9, so setting the status to "Fix released" now.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212402 Title: Enabling KVM with recent QEMU builds from GIT hang at boot on Ubuntu Precise AMD64 kernel 3.8.0 Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: When I compile QEMU from GIT and run it with './x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm' it just hangs, the QEMU screen stays black. (Everything else in the GTK UI is responsive though, I can use the QEMU console as well.) I'm running Ubuntu Precise with kernel 3.8.0-27-generic on an Intel Core2 Duo P9500. With bisecting, I found this commit caused the problem: 235e8982ad393e5611cb892df54881c872eea9e1 is the first bad commit commit 235e8982ad393e5611cb892df54881c872eea9e1 Author: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> Date: Wed May 29 01:27:26 2013 -0700 kvm: support using KVM_MEM_READONLY flag for regions For readonly memory regions and rom devices in romd_mode, we make use of the KVM_MEM_READONLY. A slot that uses KVM_MEM_READONLY can be read from and code can execute from the region, but writes will exit to qemu. For rom devices with !romd_mode, we force the slot to be removed so reads or writes to the region will exit to qemu. (Note that a memory region in this state is not executable within kvm.) v7: * Update for readable => romd_mode rename (5f9a5ea1) Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (v4) Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> (v5) Message-id: 1369816047-16384-4-git-send-email-jordan.l.jus...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> :100644 100644 327ae12f08b9dddc796d753d8adfb1f70c78b2c1 8e7bbf8698f6bcaa5ae945ef86e7b51effde06fe M kvm-all.c To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1212402/+subscriptions