semantic: 0.217 device: 0.126 files: 0.122 graphic: 0.108 other: 0.093 PID: 0.066 performance: 0.049 debug: 0.049 socket: 0.033 boot: 0.032 vnc: 0.031 KVM: 0.025 network: 0.025 permissions: 0.024 debug: 0.199 files: 0.125 boot: 0.101 performance: 0.095 other: 0.081 PID: 0.069 socket: 0.065 semantic: 0.052 vnc: 0.051 device: 0.049 network: 0.045 permissions: 0.030 graphic: 0.028 KVM: 0.011 qcow2 image converted from Photon OS can't be started Steps to reproduce the issue: 1. Download the ovf from this place: https://bintray.com/vmware/photon/download_file?file_path=photon-custom-hw10-1.0-62c543d.ova 2. Extract vmdk from ova file. 3. Convert from vmdk fromat to qcow2 via qeum-img 4. Launch the qcow2 image. The VM is started. But there is no any output. CPU usage is 100% I try this steps and meet the similar issue: 1. Deploy a VM in ESXi from https://bintray.com/vmware/photon/download_file?file_path=photon-custom-hw10-1.0-62c543d.ova 2. Copy vmdk and flat.vmdk file 3. Convert from vmdk format to raw via qeum-img(qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw Photon.vmdk Photon.raw) 4. Launch the qcow2 image. The VM is started. And the splash screen is showed. But then there is no any output. The QEMU project is currently considering to move its bug tracking to another system. For this we need to know which bugs are still valid and which could be closed already. Thus we are setting older bugs to "Incomplete" now. If you still think this bug report here is valid, then please switch the state back to "New" within the next 60 days, otherwise this report will be marked as "Expired". Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience. Additional question if this is still relevant: How did you run QEMU here, i.e. which command line parameters did you use? [Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]