Looks like a patch for this issue has now been included here: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1bb099f6308d594061
** Changed in: qemu Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- 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: Fix Committed 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