I tried to install SLES 10 SP1 Guest using qemu. Install halts in the early stages of installation when the interface drive is SCSi. But with IDE interface installation is successful. seems to be SCSI emulation issue.. Host OS Info : CPU Model : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 Host OS: fedora11 rawhide Host Kernel : uname -a Linux mls21a 2.6.30-rc5 #1 SMP Wed May 13 18:11:51 IST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Steps to reproduce: 1. Create qcow2 qemu-img create -f qcow2 sles10.qcow2 6G 3. Convert sles10.qcow2 to sles10.raw qemu-img convert -f raw sles10.qcow2 sles10.raw 4.start guest install qemu-kvm -cdrom SLES-10-SP1-DVD-i386-RC5-DVD1.iso -drive file=sles10.raw,if=scsi -m 512 -smp 2 Let me know if any other information is required. Thanks -Pradeep -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html