clonezilla fails to boot in QEMU

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#246 clonezilla fails to boot in QEMU

Milestone: testing_clonezilla

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2016-07-03

Created: 2016-04-12

Creator: Benjamin Drung

Private: No

Issue

The current clonezilla live 2.4 ISO images do not boot in QEMU. The screen freezes after switching to the bochsdrmfb driver (see attached clonezilla.png).

Affected clonezilla versions

clonezilla-live-2.4.2-10-amd64.iso
clonezilla-live-2.4.2-32-amd64.iso
clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.iso
clonezilla-live-2.4.5-23-amd64.iso

Last known good one: clonezilla-live-2.3.2-22-amd64.iso

Affected qemu versions

qemu 1.2
qemu 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 on Ubuntu 15.10
qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-5 on Debian testing

Workarounds

Remove the "vga=788" parameter when booting clonezilla or switch from "-vga std" to "-vga qxl"

Steps to reproduce

Launch qemu with these options:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -vga std -drive file=clonezilla-live-2.4.5-23-amd64.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=unsafe -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1

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Discussion

Benjamin Drung - 2016-04-12

clonezilla-live-2.4.6-8-amd64.iso is also affected.

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Steven Shiau - 2016-04-17

So if you choose the "KMS" mode in the boot menu, does it work?
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/01-clonezilla-boot-menu.doc#01-clonezilla-boot-menu.doc

Steven

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- Benjamin Drung - 2016-04-22
  
  Clonezilla live resized the windows, but shows the same symptoms when selecting "Clonezilla live (Default settings, KMS)"
  
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Steven Shiau - 2016-05-01

Please try the vga=normal mode. It looks like the vga mode is not well supported.

Seven

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Benjamin Drung - 2016-05-12

The virtual machine boots fine with vga=normal.

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Steven Shiau - 2016-05-16

Thanks for confirming this.
BTW, have you tried any Debian live CD and it works for your virtual machine?

Steven

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Benjamin Drung - 2016-05-17

I have tested debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso on my virtual machine and it works there. I can test a Debian stretch/unstable based live CD if you point me to one.

Test command:
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -vga std -drive file=~/Downloads/debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=unsafe -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1

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Steven Shiau - 2016-05-29

Thanks for the command. I will find some time to test it next week.
As for the Debian testing/unstable ISO files, it seems the latest one I can find is this:
http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha5/i386/iso-cd/debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso

Steven

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Benjamin Drung - 2016-05-30

debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso is an installer ISO, but not a live CD.

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Steven Shiau - 2016-06-22

I tested Clonezilla live 2.4.7-1, the results still the same. Only the safe graphics mode will work althought the Linux kernel now is 4.6.2 in this release. It seems the Linux kernel somehow does not support the VGA card which QEMU uses as default (std).
How about reporting this isse to upstream?

Steven

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- Benjamin Drung - 2016-07-01
  
  How about reporting this isse to upstream?
  
  Good idea. Where do you took the kernel from?
  
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Steven Shiau - 2016-07-03

The Linux kernel we have is from Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64
Thanks.

Steven

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