Hello,
I am working, well trying still, to get that image to boot w/ Machinekit and EmcApplication. Have you looked in the logs /var/log/ and type dmesg or journalctl -xe ?
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I am having some complication so far as I have not tried to compile the EmcApplication w/ QEMU yet. But...I got the MachineKit-hal to work just fine w/ halrun and halcmd.
Um...upgrading to a newer kernel may prove useful too. I am currently trying plain, ole LinuxCNC for now.
Seth
P.S. W/ LCD Cape, I got it to work but in a server online, the LinuxCNC does not want to show up due to errors. Even if this does not help, please try to reply. I may think of other items of interest soon b/c of further testing.