[Bug 706706] Re: Can't use Norton Ghost under Ubuntu KVM

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Tong Sun (706706 at bugs.launchpad.net):
> 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.

Will try tonight.

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  Can't use Norton Ghost under Ubuntu KVM