Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd to a directory containg Fedora Live image 2. for cpu in n270 athlon pentium3 pentium2 pentium coreduo kvm64 core2duo phenom qemu64; do echo CPU $cpu; sleep 5; qemu -cpu $cpu -m 512 -cdrom Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso; done 3. When Fedora boot screen appears, use TAB key to edit boot line to remove rhgb and quiet 4. Hit return to boot Actual results: Screen shows (Manually transcribed) "Loading Loading vmlinuz0......... Loading initrd0.img......ready This kernel requires an x86_64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot, please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. " Expected results: Normal boot Additional info: 'yum list qemu\* gives: "Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages qemu-common.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 @/qemu-common-0.15.1-4.fc16.x86_64 qemu-img.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 @/qemu-img-0.15.1-4.fc16.x86_64 qemu-kvm.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 @/qemu-kvm-0.15.1-4.fc16.x86_64 qemu-system-x86.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 @/qemu-system-x86-0.15.1-4.fc16.x86_64 Available Packages qemu.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-guest-agent.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-kvm-tools.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-launcher.noarch 1.7.4-7.fc12 fedora qemu-system-arm.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-system-cris.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-system-m68k.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-system-mips.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-system-sh4.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates qemu-user.x86_64 2:0.15.1-4.fc16 updates "
'qemu' is the i386 qemu binary. You need to use qemu-system-x86_64 or similar