qemu-system-x86_64 refuses to boot HDD

[Juergen Lock]

In article <1365479661800-5802513.post at n5.nabble.com> you write:
>Another problem: qemu starts but all it shows is some dots (.......) some
>large space, then more dots. Is that a qemu display setting problem? Should
>I give a fixed RAM or something?

Hmm are you using -curses?  IIRC that only works as long as the guest
stays in vga textmode i.e. isn't using X or framebuffee consoles.

 Oh and if you run qemu as root it may default to -curses too since
it probably doesn't have permissions to access your X display...
(Usually you dont't need to run qemu as root btw.)

 HTH,
	Juergen