This is still a problem with qemu 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.16, and can be reproduced with:
curl -LO https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/reactos/ReactOS/0.4.13/ReactOS-0.4.13-live.zip unzip ReactOS-0.4.13-live.zip qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom ReactOS-0.4.13-Live.iso -boot d -usb -device usb-tablet [Pick "LiveCD" in the boot menu] Which gives the error shown in the attached screenshot. I've changed the Status back to New. ** Changed in: qemu Status: Expired => New ** Attachment added: "The failure to initialize the video driver" https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1859106/+attachment/5510558/+files/initialization_failure.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1859106 Title: 4.2 regression: ReactOS crashes on boot Status in QEMU: New Bug description: In QEMU 4.1.x and earlier, ReactOS can successfully boot, but starting with 4.2, it fails, instead coming up with an error "The video driver failed to initialize." This happens regardless of VM configuration (even -M pc-i440fx-4.1) and it works well with older versions of QEMU. bisecting QEMU to find the first bad commit reveals 0221d73ce6a8e075adaa0a35a6ef853d2652b855 as the culprit, which is updating the seabios version; perhaps this bug belongs there, but I don't know the appropriate avenue (it seems seabios is a subproject of QEMU anyway?). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1859106/+subscriptions
