I tried to install SLES 10 SP1 Guest using qemu. Install halts in the early stages of installation with the SCSi. But with IDE 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 2.6.31rc2 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 Observations On host: ls_scsi error observations oh guest: guest install halts 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