Re: [Libguestfs] supermin on arm
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:37:47PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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Hi all,
I was testing oz/imagefactory on 32 bit arm, you have to have
kernel-lpae installed to run kvm. while you can have the regular
kernel installed also. You end up having the system booting the regular
kernel and you do not get kvm. Ideally supermin will work with the lpae
kernel.
https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/kernel.ml#L112
explictly removes it.
This check was added in the following commit:
commit dc3e43babd76883df0493b57d563ca3b69e2662c
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>
Date: Thu Aug 1 11:49:15 2013 +0100
helper: On arm, don't choose a .lpae or .tegra kernel.
The vexpress-aX emulation we are using in qemu doesn't support these
kernels.
The concern was that the lpae kernels don't boot under qemu. If they
do, then I can remove this check.
Can you see if supermin works if you set some variation of:
export SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/vmlinuz-<version>.lpae
export SUPERMIN_KERNEL_VERSION=<version>
export SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/<version>.lpae
which should bypass the check.
You might also need to set SUPERMIN_DTB to point to a DTB, or maybe
not if qemu is generating device trees correctly on ARM 32 bit these
days.
Roll on aarch64 :-)
Rich.
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