The stoney cloud contains drivers needed to run in a virtualized environment, namely Qemu/KVM, but the initial ramdisk does not load them automatically. Therefore some manual work is needed to successfully boot a fresh installation inside Qemu/KVM.
Therefore, when booting == Before finishing the installed stoney cloud, one has installation ==When being asked <code>Do you want to edit the kernel commandlinereboot your system?</code> switch to a second console (Alt + F2) and execute: vim /mnt/osbd/boot/grub/grub.conf
Append the following to the two lines starting with "kernel":
doload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk
This will make sure that the initial ramdisk loads the required virtio-drivers during boot.
Afterwards switch back to the installer (Alt + F1) and answer <code>yes</code>.
== After having finished the installation ==
Even if you already finished the installation and rebooted, there is a way to boot your installation:
When you get the GRUB boot screen:
* press <code>e</code> on the already selected boot line
* use the arrow keys to navigate to the entry starting with <code>kernel /kernel ...</code> and press <code>e</code> again
This change can be made permanent by logging in as root after the startup and editing the grub configuration:
<source lang='bash'> mount /boot vim /mnt/osbd/boot/grub/grub.conf# now append Append the following to the two lines starting with "kernel": doload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk to both kernel entries</source>
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