graphic: 0.790 mistranslation: 0.772 semantic: 0.713 instruction: 0.587 boot: 0.500 other: 0.499 device: 0.474 socket: 0.378 network: 0.351 vnc: 0.265 assembly: 0.091 KVM: 0.075 Open Solaris 2009 Doesn't Boot The latest git version of qemu (commit 420b6c317de87890e06225de6e2f8af7bf714df0) fails to boot the OpenSolaris image from http://dlc.sun.com/osol/opensolaris/2009/06/osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso. qemu-img create opensolaris 3G qemu-system-sparc -hda opensolaris -cdrom osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso -boot d -redir tcp:2232::22 -k en-us -m 192 gives: ... Trying cdrom:d File not found Trying cdrom... Not a bootable ELF image Not a bootable a.out image No valid state has been set by load or init_program Host: Linux/x86_64 gcc4.5 ./configure --enable-linux-aio --enable-io-thread --enable-kvm Are you sure that it boots on real hardware? From the information given in http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/osol/opensolaris/2009/06/README.osol-repo I'd expect that this image is not bootable from CD-ROM. A Debian CD-ROM boots without any problem. The URLs don't work any more, and according to Stefan's comment, this was likely not a bug, so I'm closing this ticket now (feel free to open it again if you don't agree).