I tried to install SLES 11 Guest using qemu. it doesn't boot it up after successful install and dropping to minimum shell . Seems to be not finding the disk . 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 sles11.qcow2 6G 2. Convert sles11.qcow2 to sles11.raw qemu-img convert -f raw sles11.qcow2 sles11.raw 3.start guest install qemu-kvm -cdrom SLES-11-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso -drive file=sles11.raw,if=scsi,cache=off -m 512 -smp 2 4. After the guest install boot up from the image. qemu-kvm -boot c sles11.raw this command 4 fails to boot up the guest as mentioned above, dropping to minimum shell. 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