While packaging GRUB 2.00 and testing it in kvm on quantal, I noticed that the timeout at the GRUB menu expires much too quickly. Initially I assumed that this was a regression in GRUB. However, it is apparently a known regression in qemu-kvm. This was reported to openSUSE (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769138) and (judging from the openSUSE packaging) fixed in these two upstream commits:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=205df4d1a87cbb14a50655fb2c0a987467fb29d6
https://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=050a46065de8e3d4ee5a04f5598d666f63d34800
Please could you backport these to quantal?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: qemu-kvm 1.1~rc+dfsg-1ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-8.8-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 6 11:28:06 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
KvmCmdLine:
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
cjwatson 29982 21037 30 159878 82740 1 11:19 pts/13 00:03:09 kvm -monitor stdio -m 512 -hda debian-plain.img
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D830
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-8-generic root=UUID=45b8cfe4-c971-4514-9e41-08f0592e8bf2 ro bootchart=disable quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (86 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/07/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.name: 0HN341
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd06/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD830:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HN341:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D830
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
I was able to confirm this - 2000 seconds disappeared in about 1.5 secs.