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MichaƂ Sawicz (saviq) wrote : Can't boot minimal images in QEMU

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
[2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/bionic/release/ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img