I've installed arch in a qemu virtual machine, and I've specified FONT=Lat2-Terminus16 in /etc/vconsole.conf. When the machine boots I can see the effect of that font being installed, but soon after the console font is reset to some default value. This happens with qemu's default virtual display hardware of "cirrus" and also "qxl", but not "std" or "vmware". What seems to fix it is delaying the execution of systemd-vconsole-setup until after /dev/fb0 has been created, by creating /etc/udev/rules.d/20-fb0.rules: SUBSYSTEM=="graphics", KERNEL=="fb0", TAG+="systemd" and /etc/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.d/local.conf: [Unit] After=dev-fb0.device Requires=dev-fb0.device I have a few questions: * does anybody else have this problem? * are there any better ways to solve it than the above? * does this indicate a missing dependency for systemd-vconsole-setup, and/or bugs in the VGA drivers that appear to overwrite the configured console font? thanks! Carl