I encountered the same thing and created a patch that fixes the problem for me.
This is not a real fix. All i have done is the following: - Clone the repo. - Get a reverse diff for the commit in question "git diff 7c7db75..4ffd16f >foo1.patch". - Try to apply this on master "patch <foo1.patch" and skip all files that could not be found. - And finally do a "git diff >remove-7c7db75.patch" As i am a gentoo user i applied this patch within my ebuild and ** Patch added: "remove-7c7db75.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1021649/+attachment/3235773/+files/remove-7c7db75.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021649 Title: qemu 1.1.0 waits for a keypress at boot Status in QEMU: Confirmed Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: qemu 1.1.0 waits for a keypress at boot. Please don't ever do this. Try the attached test script. When run it will initially print nothing, until you hit a key on the keyboard. Removing -nographic fixes the problem. Using virtio-scsi instead of virtio-blk fixes the problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1021649/+subscriptions