I managed to run the vm from command line as follows: # /usr/sbin/brctl addbr br0 # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up # /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth0 # /sbin/dhclient br0 # /sbin/iptables -F FORWARD # cd /var/lib/libvirt/images # qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel zImage-versatile-2.6.24-rc7.armv5tel -append "root=0800" -hdc arm1.img -serial stdio -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=./qemu-ifup This time it booted fine with only one problem: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc7/modules.dep: No such file or directory Despite this error, i could login into the terminal and do a "yum update" from inside vm. I observed two things: 1- /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc7/modules.dep wasn't present in the image 2- the error mentioned in my earlier email "Did not find pci.0 bus for lsi53c895a" is perhaps related to the scsi driver lsi53c895a not being correctly loaded by qemu. Problem #1 can be fixed by recompiling the kernel modules and copying the modules.dep and modules the correct folder. Please suggest what could be done to fix the issue #2. /tuxdna On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM, tuxdna <tuxdna(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: