I have recently migrated from Debian-based Knoppix to SL
(livecd-iso-to-disk from SL-65-x86_64-2014-02-06-LiveDVD.iso), and
installed the emulator from the package
qemu-system-x86-1.0-27.2.x86_64.rpm).  The emulator booted a Knoppix
image without incidents (albeit somewhat slowly,
KNOPPIX_V7.2.0DVD-2013-06-16-EN.iso).  However, booting the SL 65
LiveDVD didn't go so well - it hangs in the startup screen with the
inner arc stopping at about 3 o'clock position.  I wonder if there may
be another package for qemu that I should use, or if there is another
virtual machine that may be more robust for SL.  Thanks in advance for
help or suggestions.

SL-65-x86_64-2014-02-06-LiveDVD.iso (via livecd-iso-to-disk)
HP laptop Pavilion g6 with dual AMD A6-4400M APU