[*]Try selecting 6 e1000 NICs on the ASA. Why did you go with 2 instead of six?

Exponent - I only need 2 interfaces and it makes for a faster boot and configuration. It is exactly the same behavior with 6 interfaces.

[*]Post the output from ps aux | grep qemu. From my experience, the qemuwrapper invokes qemu in a way that doesn't work. Unless you give me some command output to work with, i cant do much.

Here is output of ps aux | grep qemu.


Exponent - Yes you are correct the qemuwrapper is indeed the problem. There is some kind of a path issue I believe. I am almost certain that the wrapper is indeed the problem.

Did you invoke qemu with the 8.4 image from the terminal and did it work?

Yes - I did invoke qemu from the terminal and it worked flawlessly.

I may pla around with the settings a bit more. Just out of curiosity have you tried 1.6.2 or 1.7.0. The reason I ask is that it takes so long to compile and setup that I am just trying to get a feel for what works and what doesn't.

You are correct - it is the qemuwrapper that is causing all the problems. I had a look at the puthon script but I aint gonna touch it. I guess if needed I can just test the ASA as a standalone under qemu and telnet. It (Qemu/ASA) works in windows but it crawls compared to Linux. The router works flawlessly and I have run as many as a dozen 7200s! I know the problem isnt qemu and it isnt the images. All arrows point to the wrapper.

I cant pinpoint the problem, but from what you are posting your ASA should have been working.

Try the following:

1. ASA RAM-memory: 1024 (instead of your 512)
2. qemu options: -vnc none -vga none -icount auto -hdachs 980,16,32 -cpu coreduo -nographic
3. Kernel cmd line:ide_generic.probe_mask=0x01 ide_core.chs=0.0:980,16,32 auto nousb console=ttyS0,9600 bigphysarea=65536 ide1=noprobe no-hlt

I used qemu 1.7.0. I only like troubleshooting using the latest stable releases, because i always assume they fix things. I mean, check out http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.7. I have heard of no-one having trouble with qemu 1.6.2 though, so you should be fine.

I think your problem is the RAM you gave to your ASA, i think 8.4(2) needs 1024 MB RAM. Give the above a shot, and please post the results of your attempts (and please include ps aux | grep qemu so we can see what the qemuwrapper actually invoked). And at the end, post the output of the following commands:

Good luck!

Houston - we have main stage ignition. That worked like a charm. No errors. The console came up no problem. I posted a howto on this as it was quite a bit of work getting it running but in the end it worked. Thanks for your help.