Comment 5 for bug 897771

I verified the fix posted by Avi to qemu-devel:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/130695

fixes the boot crash of the mentioned image (note that the provided command-line is not sufficent, since the image directs all its output to the serial port (serial console), so you have to configure a serial port to see the messages). It also does not affect - seemingly - any other functionality so far, this and a few other guests continues to work as before. It does not fix all the issues with *BSD reported for 1.0 but it is already a good start.

Thanks!