Quoting Tong Sun (<email address hidden>):
> Packages
> qemu-common:
> Installed: 1.0+201101212012
> Candidate: 1.0+201101212012
...
> but the proble remains. Same symptom.
Excellent, so the problem is still in upstream, or is in our
configuration.
Actually it's probably our bios.
> Yes, I was hoping to avoid downloading an iso I'd never heard of.
> >
>
> Yep, me neither. But it's OK for this case, 'cause we are only using it in a
> guest on the virtual machine.
An exploit from a guest kernel through an emulated device through the kvm
process into the kvm kernel module isn't inconcievable :)
But I'll go ahead and download that and give it a try tonight. I
suspect we'll need either an update to the bioses, or to use the
multiboot bios.
> Please do the following.
>
> - create a brand new kvm disk image,
>
> kvm-img create -f qcow hda 6G
>
> - without doing anything else, try to boot Norton Ghost from within kvm:
>
> kvm -hda hda -cdrom /path/to/Hiren.BootCD.8.6.iso -boot d
>
> and see if you can boot into Norton Ghost yourself.
Quoting Tong Sun (<email address hidden>):
> Packages
> qemu-common:
> Installed: 1.0+201101212012
> Candidate: 1.0+201101212012
...
> but the proble remains. Same symptom.
Excellent, so the problem is still in upstream, or is in our
configuration.
Actually it's probably our bios.
> Yes, I was hoping to avoid downloading an iso I'd never heard of.
> >
>
> Yep, me neither. But it's OK for this case, 'cause we are only using it in a
> guest on the virtual machine.
An exploit from a guest kernel through an emulated device through the kvm
process into the kvm kernel module isn't inconcievable :)
But I'll go ahead and download that and give it a try tonight. I
suspect we'll need either an update to the bioses, or to use the
multiboot bios.
> Please do the following. Hiren.BootCD. 8.6.iso -boot d
>
> - create a brand new kvm disk image,
>
> kvm-img create -f qcow hda 6G
>
> - without doing anything else, try to boot Norton Ghost from within kvm:
>
> kvm -hda hda -cdrom /path/to/
>
> and see if you can boot into Norton Ghost yourself.
Will try tonight.