This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'invalid' now. Please continue with the discussion here:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/243 ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Invalid ** Bug watch added: gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues #243 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/243 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811888 Title: Qemu refuses to multiboot Elf64 kernels Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: Qemu does not multiboot Elf64 bit kernels when emulating x86_64 systems. This is unfortunate because it renders the `-kernel` option quite useless. It's true that a multiboot compatible bootloader puts you in protected mode by default, and you have to set up the long mode yourself. While it is easy to put such 32-bit bootstrap code in a 64 bit binary, it is not possible to compile a 64 bit kernel into a 32 bit binary. After quick search, it turned out that loading 64 bit elf binaries has been disabled to be compatible with GRUB. However, since that time, both GRUB and Syslinux load 64 bit ELF kernels just fine, which makes qemu incompatible with them. Furthermore, it seems that this feature does and has always worked fine and that people have since submitted patches to re-enable it. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/62142/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9770523/ Please consider applying the attached patch. Best Regards, Lukasz Janyst To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1811888/+subscriptions
