32 bit live Xfce ISO won't boot in kvm
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Sat Mar 10 14:19:54 UTC 2012
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Todd And Margo Chester <toddandmargo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I can get the 64 bit live cd to boot in KVM (host = SL 6.2 x64)
>
> Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso
>
> But, when I switch my CDROM drive to
>
> Fedora-16-i686-Live-XFCE.iso
>
> Fedora goes through the motions of trying to boot,
> then dies at
>
> Starting SYSV: Late init script for live image....
> Started SYSV: Late init script for live image..
> Start SYSV: Late init script for live image
>
> I tried re-downloading the ISO, no joy. If I burn
> to a CD and directly boot to it (no virtual machine),
> the CD does work.
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
How did you set up the vm?
while i tested on f16 host using kvm and x86_64 as the arch it is
booting just fine. i get a desktop working in about 15-20 seconds. i
believe if you set the arch to 1686 or 1386 you actually dont get kvm
used and just plain qemu which is much much slower
Dennis
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