[Spice-devel] cannot boot from virtio / no -qxl option

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

> -when the disk is set to "virtio", I can install F13, but boot fails
> (at bios stage). When I set it to IDE then, it starts OK

Upstream qemu simply doesn't support that (yet).

There have been seabios patches floating around which should fix this 
though, so this should improve soon.

> -when I use "-vga qxl", f13 loads the non-graphical part (blue
> progress bar), but X doesn't start. Instead, I just get a blinking
> cursor at the top left corner...

Try installing xorg-x11-drv-qxl.

> I also noticed that the "-qxl 1" option does not work anymore, is
> that normal?

It has been replaced by -vga qxl

cheers,
   Gerd