Well that's very interesting because one of the patches we have added in Fedora is:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=0001-qemu-kvm- Add-missing-default-machine- options.patch;h=e785a708d0bf0861c2f0f1777b8cc477d12fe145;hb=HEAD -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021649 Title: qemu 1.1.0 waits for a keypress at boot Status in QEMU: New Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Debian: Incomplete Bug description: qemu 1.1.0 waits for a keypress at boot. Please don't ever do this. Try the attached test script. When run it will initially print nothing, until you hit a key on the keyboard. Removing -nographic fixes the problem. Using virtio-scsi instead of virtio-blk fixes the problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1021649/+subscriptions