Sorry, this is actually not a qemu problem. The arch system just doesn't display any messages during boot when `-nographic` is used. The issue can be closed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926052 Title: qemu freezes during grub on arch cloudimg Status in QEMU: New Bug description: When booting the Arch Linux cloud image and setting `-nographic`, qemu will freeze during the grub bootloader. Tested with qemu 5.1 and 5.2. Reproduce: ``` wget https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes/-/jobs/20342/artifacts/raw/output/Arch-Linux-x86_64-basic-20210420.20342.qcow2 qemu-system-x86_64 -hda Arch-Linux-x86_64-basic-20210420.20342.qcow2 -nographic ``` It will get stuck while displaying `Welcome to GRUB!` If -nographic is omitted, it will continue to boot (without any keyboard interaction) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1926052/+subscriptions