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ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

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Running Kali (1.0.8) on Arch using qemu installs but freezes / stops

Hello, I'm moderately new Arch user so forgive me if I missing / forget something.  To the best of my knowledge my system is up to date.  I'm running Linux 3.15.7-1, and pretty much do

pacman -Syu

when I install a new package.  However I noticed the qemu package hadn't been updated in sometime so I decided to download the source using git, and compile from source.  I didn't run into many problems compiling from source, and qemu seems to load the parted magic ISO just fine using KVM.

So I decided to download the lastest ISO version of Kali (1.0.8) for amd64 (x86_64) architecture.  Qemu loaded the ISO fine, and launched the graphical installer.  I went through all the steps, and everything seemed to install fine.  When I adjusted my qemu command line arguments to boot without the ISO, it starts to load the OS (Kali) as I see the message to boot grub within the qemu window.  Grub appears to load the linux kernel and inital ramdisk, and and see various messages appear on the console, but it soon hangs / freezes when I believe it starts to load X. (the windowing server).  I am not certain of this, as I haven't checked any logs or anything just making a guess from what I have seen.

Has anyone else run into this problem, and if so how did you fix it?  Are there any logs I can check to see what exactly is causing the system to halt?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if it makes a difference my hardware is a MBP (2013 late).

ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 26

Re: Running Kali (1.0.8) on Arch using qemu installs but freezes / stops

Well, anyone trying to run Kali in qemu, if you download mini ISO of Kali, you can select which packages to install.  This allowed me to boot the system, and selectively install xorg using apt-get.  There is indeed a bug with the xorg windowing server and my hardware.  I'll post the crash log later.

Ohh, I also submitted a bug with the Kali Linux bug tracker.

Last edited by ipatch (2014-08-06 23:47:57)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: Running Kali (1.0.8) on Arch using qemu installs but freezes / stops

Just to let you know, qemu-git is available in the AUR.

Last edited by Slithery (2014-08-07 00:00:28)

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ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 26

Re: Running Kali (1.0.8) on Arch using qemu installs but freezes / stops

Just to let you know, qemu-git is available in the AUR.

Ohhh neat.  I have been having luck with building from git source, so I probably stick with that for the time being, but thanks for pointing that out.

ipatch

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Registered: 2014-05-14

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Re: Running Kali (1.0.8) on Arch using qemu installs but freezes / stops

Here's the X.org crash log, => https://ghostbin.com/paste/xbcn9