Boot stuck with ubuntu 16.04 with Qemu

[Sachith Withana]

Hi all,

Trying to use Packer to automate image creation for scientific research, i.e: new to packer :)

Created the image for ubuntu 16.04 using packer and booted that using qemu.

It booted up properly for the first time. Then I deleted that image to reproduce the same thing.

This time, Ubuntu is stuck on boot when trying to load it with qemu.

It's stuck after displaying the line /dev/sda1 clean 12123/231243

Found out that this is a bug in Ubuntu 16.04 boot up due to graphics card incompatibilities.  

Wondering if any of you have encountered this with packers? if so if you've resolved it or not.

Thanks,

Sachith