Re: Using qemu to boot Fedora x86_64 iso

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > This is borderling off-topic: I'm using qemu under Debian to
> > try to run the latest Fedora 64-bit .iso. 
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -cdrom
> > Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso -m 512 linux.img
> >
> > Fedora boots, the spinner-pointer runs, and eventually the
> > system hangs showing a monitor logo and the message 
> > "Please ask the administrator for assistance."
> >
> > I'd like to do some testing in a virtual machine.
> > Wonder if anyone has suggestions to get a better result.
>
> I gave up on qemu a long time ago, and switched to Virtualbox for all
> my VM needs.
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that seemed an interesting project. so I installed virtualbox on jessie 
from upstream, not the Debian packages. went without a hitch. booted 
Fedora 18 live. ok. even managed to install google-chrome-beta. but 
flashpalyer crashes :-(

Hugo