The xenial minimal image [1] as well as the bionic one [2] fail to boot in QEMU/KVM:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
Results in: > Booting from Hard Disk... > error: no such device: root.
Hangs at: > Booting from Hard Disk...
[1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/xenial/release/ubuntu-16.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img [2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/bionic/release/ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img
The xenial minimal image [1] as well as the bionic one [2] fail to boot in QEMU/KVM:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda ubuntu- 16.04-minimal- cloudimg- amd64-disk1. img
Results in:
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> error: no such device: root.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda ubuntu- 16.04-minimal- cloudimg- amd64-disk1. img
Hangs at:
> Booting from Hard Disk...
[1] http:// cloud-images. ubuntu. com/minimal/ releases/ xenial/ release/ ubuntu- 16.04-minimal- cloudimg- amd64-disk1. img cloud-images. ubuntu. com/minimal/ releases/ bionic/ release/ ubuntu- 18.04-minimal- cloudimg- amd64.img
[2] http://