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cristian.rosa

Member

Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 2

Arch as a guest in QEMU

I have been trying to boot Arch's ftp cd image in QEMU but the process hangs when "Loading udev...".
I searched in the forums but I can not find any clue.
Should I use any special configuration in order to make it work under QEMU?

Edit: a screenshot

Thanks!

Last edited by cristian.rosa (2009-03-08 18:37:39)

Svinto

Member

Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 18

Re: Arch as a guest in QEMU

Are you using virtio disks?
In that case Arch may have problems autodetecting your disk drives.

See if you can add the following to mkinitcio.conf and recreate it.
x86:

MODULES="virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_net"

x86_64:

MODULES="virtio virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_net"

EDIT:
I saw afterwards that this was a necropost. Sorry about that.

Last edited by Svinto (2012-01-15 22:04:01)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,334

Re: Arch as a guest in QEMU

I saw afterwards that this was a necropost. Sorry about that.

No worries, we all do it sometime.
Closing

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