Hi, Quoting Francesco Poli (2020-02-17 23:10:57) > On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:29:04 +0100 Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > Quoting Johannes Schauer (2020-02-02 20:22:49) > [...] > > > 1. you can try the qcow2 image you built without autopkgtest by just > > > running it > > > inside qemu like so: > > > > > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -serial > > > unix:/tmp/ttyS0,server,nowait -drive > > > "file=$HOME/Downloads/TEST/debian-unstable.qcow2,cache=unsafe,if=virtio,index=0" > > > > One non-obvious thing is missing here. After running the above command you > > have > > a new unix socket under /tmp/ttyS0 that you should be able to connect to > > using > > a serial terminal emulator. This is how autopkgtest connects to qemu. So > > after > > running above command, check that everything works by running something > > like: > > > > $ minicom -D 'unix#/tmp/ttyS0' > > Hello and sorry for the long delay (I had been busy in too many things...). > > I tried the test you suggested and found out that the virtual machine > fails to boot! > The attached screenshot is what is shown in the graphical window... > seemingly forever. > > I haven't even tried to connect to /tmp/ttyS0, as I guess a virtual > machine that fails to boot will never bring the serial terminal > emulator up and running... > > I am really ignorant about qemu: do you happen to have any idea on what > went wrong?
here is a hunch: Can you show me how you converted the tarball mmdebstrap produced into your debian-unstable.qcow2 image? Thanks! cheers, josch
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