Searching for the "virtual wire irq" led me to our friends at Red Hat, who have a workaround:
In my case: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /var/qemu/vdisk.img -cdrom isos/mini-x86.iso -boot d I used the magic string "install noapic" to start the normal install process. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502058 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #502058 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502058 -- MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
