Hoping to do some easy Rawhide testing, I downloaded http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/desktop/desktop-i386-20090916.16.iso and following the instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing/qemu#Testing_ISO_Images ran "qemu -cdrom desktop-i386-20090916.16.iso". It got past the grub phase, but even after leaving it alone while running errands around town, it never got to the login screen. When I returned, the virtual screen was blank, but if I hit Enter, a pure white bar appeared at the bottom, ending in "Fedora 11.91". qemu was using 100% of the CPU with no visual indication it was making any progress. Host version: qemu-0.10.6-5.fc11.i586
What happens if you remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel option line?
Created attachment 361785 [details] Screenshot 1 from first run I did two runs, both of which produced output that scrolled off the virtual screen. I have two screenshots of each.
Created attachment 361786 [details] Screenshot 2 from first run
Created attachment 361787 [details] Screenshot 1 from second run
Created attachment 361788 [details] Screenshot 2 from second run
I forgot to mention, these two runs were with F12-Snap3-i686-Live.iso.
Can you capture the full output by adding '-serial file:<filename>' to the qemu options and then adding 'console=ttyS0' to the kernel boot options (still removing 'rhgb quiet')?
Created attachment 362554 [details] Serial console output from desktop-i386-20090921.16.iso run Aha, I was hoping there was a way to do that.
Created attachment 362579 [details] Serial console output from F12-Snap3-i686-Live.iso This fails in a different way. I let this run for about 2.5 hours; the last few lines printed took many minutes.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Created attachment 396702 [details] Serial console output from desktop-i386-20100224.18.iso, qemu-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 Testing more recent releases, I'm still unable to run desktop-i386-20100224.18.iso (Fedora 14 Rawhide) under qemu-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 (kernel-2.6.33-0.47.rc8.git1.fc13.i686) I'm getting lots of errors like: udevd[76]: worker [109] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100 Full serial console output attached.
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