Thanks, problem solved. qemu 2.9.0-r55 did not boot, but 2.9.0-r2 did. I've got my time-sink back.
BTW, qemu 2.9.0-r55 wanted to pull in sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf and sys-firmware/seabios. 2.9.0-r2 pulls in sys-firmware/seabios, sys-devel/dev86, and sys-firmware/vgabios. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
