install Debian using qemu - fail

[Stanislaw Findeisen <waka.2015@eisenbits.com>]

Hi

I am trying to install Debian in file, using QEMU and following this 
guide: https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU . I do this:

$ qemu-img create debian.img 2G
Formatting 'debian.img', fmt=raw size=2147483648
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -hda ./debian.img -cdrom 
../debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d -m 2048

which runs the Debian installer.

Everything works fine (a bit slow) except that it always fails on 
"select and install software" step. Why?
How can I access syslog? I tried to mount a partition contained in 
debian.img and look for syslog there, but there is no such file.

I am running:

Linux dellsf 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 
(2015-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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