[CoLoCo] Trouble with Hardy in Qemu

[Ringo Kamens]

I ended up using the alternate install CD which seems to be working
fine so if anybody else has similar problems, try that.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to run Ubuntu Hardy Heron x64 in qemu and I'm having some
> difficulties. I'm on an AMD64 processor running Ubuntu 7.10 x64.
>
> Here's the command I'm using to run the virtual machine, which is just
> the Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit livecd
> qemu-system-x86_64 -snapshot -cdrom ubuntu.iso
>
> For some reason, it starts booting and then just ends up in BusyBox.
> The screen seems to work fine, since the loading bar can be seen. I
> googled this and found out that booting with the kernel option
> pci=nomsi could help but I got the same results when I tried it. I'm
> sure this is a simple problem, but I don't know what could be causing
> it. I also tried using the irqpoll option as suggested, but no luck.
>
> Any help you can give me is appreciated,
> Comrade Ringo Kamens
>