[Qemu-devel] How to use -append to automate Ubuntu install?

[David Barrett]

What's the proper way to use -append to automatically select and begin 
an Ubuntu installation?  I tried this, but nothing happened (ie, it 
behaves the same as if I didn't set it):

sudo qemu -cdrom Ubuntu_8.04_i386.iso -append 
"file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.qz quiet --" 
test.raw

I expected it to automatically begin the default desktop install 
(pressing F6 at the install prompt shows that this is the boot line the 
installer uses), but instead it just prompted me as normal.

I'm pretty familiar with QEMU, but I've never used -append before so I'm 
not sure how to accomplish what I'm trying.  Can you offer any 
suggestions?  Thanks!

-david