My issue seems to be a case of bug 654723 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712878
Title: KVM guest hangs on 'booting from hard disk' 10.10 for guest and host. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vmbuilder/+bug/712878/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs