Thanks eezaque to further debug this. So If I understand you correctly the TL;DR is that newer qemu has issues with the chimera boot loader that you use.
You could give the even newer qemu a try that is in Ubuntu 18.04. Otherwise this is more likely an upstream qemu change/issue that needs to be analyzed/fixed there to be backported into distributions. OTOH most people (like me) won't just have a Chimera bootloader around to test. There is no obvious follow on upstream fix yet that refers to Chimera directly. The only thing I found was http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/745713/ but that doesn't sound like your problem. If ok for you I'd ask you to: 1. try the (much newer) qemu in 18.04 2. if affected as well, depending on you being able or not try it against a git build of qemu There just is v2.12.0-rc1 which would be a good candidate 3. prep a trivialized test a la "get bootloader here, run qemu with this commandline" Once this is ready we could mirror this bug to qemu upstream for their consideration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754599 Title: qemu-system-x86_64 broken on ubuntu 17.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1754599/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
