kvm-60 - blank screen

I don't usually post to devel lists because I tend to be entirely too uneducated to really understand what's going on... but I'm just so close to getting this setup that I would feel silly to sit around and wait for someone else to fix it.

Using kvm-60 from debian/unstable I have been able to install and setup a win 2k3 server image... with the catch being I can only do so running the option -no-kvm. As you can imagine, this bring a new meaning to the word slow.

Without -no-kvm I get an empty black box and nothing else... this was the same when booting off a debian install disk. There is all manner of CPU activity, but no terminal output and no other indication of what's going wrong. I tried running it with strace, which produced a very tight loop and nothing else (reproduced below). I've scouered the archives and other resources and found nothing similar to my problem, and aside waiting for kvm-61 to hit unstable, I'm at a loss as to what to try next.

Here is the command I am using:
kvm -hda win2k3.img -m 256 -no-acpi -localtime -no-kvm

The system is an amd64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ and I have confirmed r/w access to /dev/kvm for the user running kvm. Not sure if there is anything else that is helpful, but just let me know and I'll get it for you right away.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide,
Sean

------- strace ouput -------

rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1203464959, 420155}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879911800}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879931919}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 879951719}) = 0 timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0 timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 250000}}, NULL) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880019919}) = 0
select(8, [7], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880069479}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880090439}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880110479}) = 0 timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 120040}}) = 0
ioctl(5, 0xae80, 0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], {si_signo=SIGALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_pid=0, si_uid=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}}, 0xff9021b8, 8) = 14 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, NULL, {0x804db90, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1203464959, 420690}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880444477}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880464437}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880484277}) = 0 timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0 timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3295000}}, NULL) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880550277}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880570157}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {93051, 880589876}) = 0 timer_gettime(0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3198681}}) = 0 timer_settime(0, 0, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 3190000}}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(5, 0xae80, 0) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], {si_signo=SIGALRM, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_pid=0, si_uid=0, si_value={int=0, ptr=0}}, 0xff9021b8, 8) = 14 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, NULL, {0x804db90, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigtimedwait([USR2 ALRM IO], 0x81a8f00) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

...and so on and so on like that forever...

Sean Kellogg
e: [email protected]

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Have you tried running without '-no-acpi'?

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Thanks for the suggestion, but sadly I get the same black box and the strace output is the same.

-Sean

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