Hi, >> It is a 64bit guest OS. >> I've upgraded to RHEL 5.8 and still have the same problem. > My rhel5 is 32bit. > >> Could you please send me a qemu command line you are running? > qemu-default -m 512 -hda /vmdisk/guests/rhel5.img -device > ivshmem,size=128M,shm=ivshmem.root Could you please set the parameter use64=1 ? I guess 64bit OS might also be important. I don't have a 32 bit version at the moment to check whether it fails or not.
Thanks, Alexey