On 12/10/12 03:05, Alexey Korolev wrote: > 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 ?
It's the default (except when using -M pc-$old), and according to lspci the guest sees a 64bit bar. > 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. both 32bit and 64bit rhel5 installer isos boot just fine for me. cheers, Gerd