another attempt with a leap 15.0 i586 kernel. Same situation that process is hanging and no response on sysrq. The local files including memory dump, root, swap, kernel and initrd can be found in my nfs home in ~adrian/lamb04_4/ qemu command line used to start the VM: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -nodefaults -no-reboot -nographic -vga none -object rng-random,filename=/dev/random,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0 -runas qemu -cpu host -net none -kernel /var/cache/obs/worker/root_4/.mount/boot/kernel -initrd /var/cache/obs/worker/root_4/.mount/boot/initrd -append root=/dev/disk/by-id/virtio-0 rootfstype=ext3 rootflags=data=writeback,nobarrier,commit=150,noatime panic=1 quiet no-kvmclock nmi_watchdog=0 rw rd.driver.pre=binfmt_misc elevator=noop console=ttyS0 init=/.build/build -m 8192 -drive file=/var/cache/obs/worker/root_4/root,format=raw,if=none,id=disk,serial=0,cache=unsafe -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=disk -drive file=/var/cache/obs/worker/root_4/swap,format=raw,if=none,id=swap,serial=1,cache=unsafe -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=swap -serial stdio -chardev socket,id=monitor,server,nowait,path=/var/cache/obs/worker/root_4/root.monitor -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -smp 8