Re: Tried to install F14 Alpha in QEMU on F13; hang during boot

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:16:21 -0400
Matt McCutchen <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am eager to play with systemd, so I tried to install F14 Alpha
> x86_64 on a QEMU virtual machine.  The host is my Dell Latitude D620
> running F13 x86_64, fully updated with updates-testing enabled.  I
> started the VM with this command (f14.qcow2 is a blank 4GiB disk
> image created with qemu-img):
> 
> qemu-kvm -hda f14.qcow2 -cdrom Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso
> 
> I chose "Install a new system or upgrade an existing system" from the
> menu.  The virtual machine printed the message, "Trying to unpack
> rootfs image as initramfs", there was high CPU usage for a fraction
> of a second, and then it appeared to hang.  Screenshot:
> 
> https://mattmccutchen.net/private/f14a-qemu/screenshot.png
> 
> I tried again with "-serial stdio" on the qemu command line and
> "console=ttyS0" on the kernel command line, and captured the following
> log:
> 
> https://mattmccutchen.net/private/f14a-qemu/log.txt
> 
> It makes no difference if I choose the basic video driver, or if I use
> qemu-system-x86_64 instead of qemu-kvm.
> 
> Is this supposed to work?  Am I doing something wrong, or if not, what
> package do I file a bug against?

yes, it should work. 

Perhaps it's a bad download? What does sha256sum say about the iso
against the CHECKSUM file?

This is a 64 bit machine right? :)

kevin

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