On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:40 +0000, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote: > Hi Avi/All, > > I am facing issue to boot KVM guest on x86 (I used to work on PowerPC > platform and do not have enough knowledge of x86). I am working on making > VFIO working on PowerPC Booke, So I have cloned Alex Williamsons git > repository, compiled kernel for x86 on fedora with virtualization > configuration (selected all kernel config options for same). Run below > command to boot Guest (I have not provided vfio device yet): > > "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -nographic -kernel > arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage -initrd /boot/initramfs-3.5.0-rc4+.img -serial > tcp::4444,server,telnet" > > After the I can see qemu command line (able to run various commands like > "info registers" etc), while guest does not boot (not even the first print > comes). > > Can anyone help in what I am missing or doing wrong?
x86 doesn't use the serial port for console by default, so you're making things quite a bit more difficult that way. Typically you'll want to provide a disk image (the -hda option is the easiest way to do this), a display (-vga std -vnc :0 is again easiest), and probably something to install from (-cdrom <image.iso>). You can also add a -boot d to get it to choose the cdrom the first time for install. Thanks, Alex
