Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/null -cdrom <path_to_ubuntu_iso_image>
> 

I only have kubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso at hand ATM, and with that
image I'm unable to reproduce. Will download and check standard ubuntu
later today.

> I was using qemu-kvm, but I assume that using -no-kvm would be
> equivalent to using plain qemu, no?

Generally yes, but not necessarily (e.g. the BIOSes are different). So
it's better to check such issues also against "clean" qemu, specifically
as we are on qemu-devel here.

Jan