From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eddy Pronk Subject: qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM" Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 22:48:08 +1000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a113d77ccbd48240550f99044" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGlzx-0002Ko-JC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:48:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGlzu-0007mr-Gc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:48:13 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::236]:36852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGlzu-0007mD-8Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:48:10 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-x236.google.com with SMTP id h4so90565204oib.3 for ; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:48:09 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --001a113d77ccbd48240550f99044 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On starting the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux image, the documentation says: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \ -net user -net nic,model=virtio -boot menu=on \ -drive file=guixsd.img \ -drive file=guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.system I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5. At some point during the boot process the console got garbled with snow. I found out the passing -vga std to qemu fixes that in my case. Cheers, Eddy --001a113d77ccbd48240550f99044 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On starting the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux ima= ge, the documentation says:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \
= =C2=A0 -net user -net nic,model=3Dvirtio -boot menu=3Don \
=C2=A0 -drive= file=3Dguixsd.img \
=C2=A0 -drive file=3Dguixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.syst= em

I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5.

At some point = during the boot process the console got garbled with snow.

I found o= ut the passing -vga std to qemu fixes that in my case.

Cheers,
Ed= dy
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