booting issue

[chillancezen]

hi Patrick,
I hope this will not bring you trouble but I still have one question which I hope to get answered,
When I was boot your kernel with the following command on a host without vmx and kvm module unloaded.

/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -curses -smp 4 -m 3000 -kernel image/disk.img -rtc base=localtime -monitor null -nographic -vnc :100

I got blank video console via vnc.

could you give me some suggestion on the environmental setup or requirement, thanks.

btw, I've also written a monolithic kernel https://github.com/chillancezen/ZeldaOS, but it's all 32-bit, and no smp supported, I wish to learn more about x86_64 and hardware assisted virtualization, I find your home brew kernel is great to cover what I am interested

[pdumais]

I've never tried without KVM enabled.
one thing I see in your command is that you use -kernel. You should be using the disk image directly instead.