I am eager to play with systemd, so I tried to install F14 Alpha x86_64
on a QEMU virtual machine. The host is my Dell Latitude D620 running
F13 x86_64, fully updated with updates-testing enabled. I started the
VM with this command (f14.qcow2 is a blank 4GiB disk image created with
qemu-img):
qemu-kvm -hda f14.qcow2 -cdrom Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso
I chose "Install a new system or upgrade an existing system" from the
menu. The virtual machine printed the message, "Trying to unpack rootfs
image as initramfs", there was high CPU usage for a fraction of a
second, and then it appeared to hang. Screenshot:
https://mattmccutchen.net/private/f14a-qemu/screenshot.png
I tried again with "-serial stdio" on the qemu command line and
"console=ttyS0" on the kernel command line, and captured the following
log:
https://mattmccutchen.net/private/f14a-qemu/log.txt
It makes no difference if I choose the basic video driver, or if I use
qemu-system-x86_64 instead of qemu-kvm.
Is this supposed to work? Am I doing something wrong, or if not, what
package do I file a bug against?
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Matt