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.
Before finishing the installation
When being asked Do you want to reboot your system? 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":
virtdoload=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 yes.
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
eon the already selected boot line - use the arrow keys to navigate to the entry starting with
kernel /kernel ...and presseagain - append the following to the line:
doload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk - press
ESCto exit and thenbto boot
This change can be made permanent by logging in as root after the startup and editing the grub configuration:
mount /boot
vim /mnt/osbd/boot/grub/grub.conf
Append the following to the two lines starting with "kernel":
virtdoload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk