Running an ARM kernel on an x86 model is obviously not going to work
either so I have no idea why you did that.
This was simply to demonstrate that qemu-system-x86_64 seemed to be
doing something even when fed an inappropriate kernel, whereas the qemu-
system-arm did not.
You're trying to run
Public bug reported:
This was using 1.0.1 on fedora 17 then using 1.6.0 built from source
with default configuration. The host machine is x86_64 (intel i5) with
a custom 3.11 kernel.
'qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel [hostkernel]'
Opens a window and shows the kernel booting.
'qemu-system-x86_64