Hi Kevin,
I met the same problem and posted in the mailing list like 10 days ago.
You can check the mailing list archive.
Briefly, two points should be kept in mind.
1. the grub should be boot in text mode, disable the framebuffer.
2. the qemu command should be with, -curses -vga virtio
the -vga virtio is important. of course, YMMV.
Good luck!
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Kevin Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this setup:
> - Ubuntu Server 14.04.1:
> - QEMU version 2.2.0:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 --version
> QEMU emulator version 2.2.0 (Debian 2:2.2+dfsg-5expubuntu8+contrail3),
> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>
> I had downloaded fedora 21 installation iso:
> Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
>
> I am trying the following sequence:
>
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 10G
> I use "-curses", as this machine is a server, and X windows is not
> installed there:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -curses -hda vdisk.img -cdrom
> Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso -boot d -m 384
>
> and I am stuck with a black screen with one line on it, in blue: 1024
> x 768 Graphic mode.
> This screen does not respond to any keystrokes. except for that
> I can toggle to monitor mode with ALT/2, but this does not help at all.
>
> when I tried with "-nographic" instead of "-curses", the installation
> hangs.
>
> What should I do in able to boot successfully?
>
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
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