Processed: Re: Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 599200 important Bug #599200 [base-installer] base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' > thanks Stopping processing here. Ple

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
severity 599200 important thanks [Ben Hutchings] > Please specify exactly which versions of kvm/qemu-kvm and the kernel you > are running in the host, and whether you are using the kvm modules from > the linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 or built from kvm-source. I finally found time to have a look, and i

Bug#599200:

2010-10-07 Thread Jan Luebbe
I've also tried it on a lenny live-cd and it works fine, too... Which versions did you use? Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#599200:

2010-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:55:18PM +0200, Jan Luebbe wrote: > Hi, i'm the maintainer of the qemu-kvm package and have now tried > serveral combinations: > > Host with 64-bit CPU and 32bit squeeze kernel/userspace and 32bit lenny > or squeeze netinst as guest: > lm in the host's /proc/cpuinfo but

Bug#599200:

2010-10-06 Thread Jan Luebbe
Hi, i'm the maintainer of the qemu-kvm package and have now tried serveral combinations: Host with 64-bit CPU and 32bit squeeze kernel/userspace and 32bit lenny or squeeze netinst as guest: lm in the host's /proc/cpuinfo but *not* in the guest's Host with 64-bit CPU and 64bit sid kernel/userspa

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:39:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:53:04AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Lennart Sorensen] > > > Well try starting the kvm with '-cpu qemu32'. That should provide > > > the feature flags of a nice 32bit x86. > > > > I tried thi

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:53:04AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Lennart Sorensen] > > Well try starting the kvm with '-cpu qemu32'. That should provide > > the feature flags of a nice 32bit x86. > > I tried this by adding > > > qemu32 > > > to the libvirtm XML file for the vi

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:07 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > affects 599200 qemu-kvm > thanks > > [Lennart Sorensen] > > The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it > > doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing > > based on the CPU feature flags. >

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lennart Sorensen] > Well try starting the kvm with '-cpu qemu32'. That should provide > the feature flags of a nice 32bit x86. I tried this by adding qemu32 to the libvirtm XML file for the virtual machine, which caused '-cpu qemu32' to be part of the kvm command line. There is no

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:01:45AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Lennart Sorensen] > > I suspect if you run kvm with the -cpu option you can specify what > > you desire. I believe the default is to simply match whatever the > > host has, so if the host has a 64bit cpu, then the guest will t

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lennart Sorensen] > I suspect if you run kvm with the -cpu option you can specify what > you desire. I believe the default is to simply match whatever the > host has, so if the host has a 64bit cpu, then the guest will too. Well, the host is using a 32-bit kernel too, so 64-bit kvm with hardware

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > affects 599200 qemu-kvm > thanks > > [Lennart Sorensen] > > The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it > > doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing > > based on the CPU feature f

Processed: Re: Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > affects 599200 qemu-kvm Bug #599200 [base-installer] base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot Added indication that 599200 affects qemu-kvm > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if yo

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
affects 599200 qemu-kvm thanks [Lennart Sorensen] > The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it > doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing > based on the CPU feature flags. Assuming this is true, I suggest two things are done to make sure d-i work o

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:42:18PM +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 19:41 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > ... > > > > Most people would prefer the 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace. I > > think there is an option in expert mode to select your kernel > > yourself from a list, but

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:27:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This is the /proc/cpuinfo in the i686 kvm guest: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 2 > model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.10.0 > stepping: 3 > c

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:08:03PM +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: > If there would be an addititional menu which gives one the possibility to > choose such a mixed system then I would be able to choose a mixed system. > But in this case, there is an , suggesting a 32-bit overall system > and on the

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 18:28:43 +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: > I installed today the same way as Petter Reinholdtsen does, but on > virtualbox-ose version 3.2.8-dfsg-2. > > uname -a on the host system gives: > > Linux laptop-jl 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 21:50:19 UTC 2010 > x86_64 GNU/L

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This is the /proc/cpuinfo in the i686 kvm guest: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.10.0 stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 2999.338 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: base-installer Version: 1.110 Severity: grave User: debian-...@lists.debian.org UserTags: debian-edu I discovered this using the Debian Edu DVD and installing on a i686 kvm guest on a i686 Lenny host. The problem is that installation now is successfull, but the installed machine fai