Comment 31 for bug 2012763

Thank you for replying to Amy, Jeff.

@Amy, you can specify the machine by using the -M option, as Jeff said. You can try running a quick&dirty test by doing what Christian said above:

$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -smp cpus=1,maxcpus=1 -enable-kvm -net none -m 512M -nographic -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -initrd /boot/initrd.img -chardev stdio,mux=on,id=char0 -mon chardev=char0,mode=readline -serial chardev:char0 -append "console=ttyS0"

Note that you have to adjust the -smp parameter accordingly.

@JUNG, you need to install the qemu package from https://launchpad.net/~sergiodj/+archive/ubuntu/qemu.

The qemu version is 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.16~ppa2.