Re: [Qemu-discuss] QEMU with kvm give "Guest has not initialized the display"

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 August 2016 at 19:50, Nutaro, James J. <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've found a handful of posts mentioning this problem,
> but no solutions yet. The command line that I'm trying to run with is
>
> qemu-system-i386 --enable-kvm disk.img
>
> If I remove the --enable-kvm it runs fine. Otherwise,
> I get a blank screen with the message  "Guest has not
> initialized the display".

This message just means "the guest hasn't tried to
talk to the VGA card yet". It can happen for a wide
range of problems which are variants of "the guest
crashed very early on before it tried to print anything".

So the thing which causes this message for one person
is not necessarily the thing which causes it for
somebody else, and the solutions are different then too.

thanks
-- PMM