[Qemu-discuss] KVM blank screen

[Francesco Ariis]

Hello qemu users,
    I have problems using KVM with qemu.

I invoked qemu like this

    qemu-system-i386 -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-9.4.0-i386-netinst.iso -boot 
d -m 1024

and it works (albeit slowly). When I try

    qemu-system-i386 -hda debian.img -cdrom debian-9.4.0-i386-netinst.iso -boot 
d -m 1024 --enable-kvm

I only get a blank screen and no error message. lsmod gives:

    $ lsmod | grep kvm
    kvm_intel             192512  0
    kvm                   454656  1 kvm_intel
    irqbypass              16384  1 kvm

I am not sure what I am doing wrong and/or what is the correct way to
diagnose this. Any help appreciated!
-F