Re: [Libguestfs] "make check" on ArchLinux: "This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU"
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:58:09PM -0400, Erik Nolte wrote:
I'm updating the ArchLinux libguestfs package to 1.12.7, but the
"make check" tests fail in qemu with:
Booting from ROM...
This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU.
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
How does qemu detect the CPU type? I'm running a 64-bit ArchLinux (without KVM) on
an Intel Xeon E5420 processor. I'm able to boot qemu's small test image
(http://wiki.qemu.org/download/linux-0.2.img.bz2) and the libguestfs iso image test
passes, but the make-{debian,fedora,ubuntu,windows}-img.sh scripts all fail with the CPU
mismatch bios error.
I added "-v" to guestfish in images/guest-aux/make-debian-img.sh, ran
"make check" and got the output listed below. I got the same results running as
root and as non-root.
[...]
[00069ms] /usr/bin/qemu \
This is the problem.
/usr/bin/qemu is an i686 emulator. You need to use qemu-system-x86_64
instead.
You can change this either by temporarily setting $LIBGUESTFS_QEMU, or
by using ./configure --with-qemu="qemu-system-x86_64"
The default for configure is to test each of:
- qemu-kvm
- qemu-system-<hostarch>
- qemu
so this may indicate that you don't actually have qemu-system-x86_64
installed.
Rich.
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