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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

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 on 32-bits kvm guests on a lenny based kvm host.

 (1) base-installer is changed to detect 32-bits kvms and to not
     propose amd64 kernels in this situation.  Not quite sure how to
     detect 32-bit kvms.

 (2) a bug is repoted against some kvm related package, to try to get
     it to stop listing the lm CPU flag for 32-bit kvm guests.  Not
     quite sure which package it should be reported against.  Perhaps
     qemu-kvm?

I've asked the kvm maintainer to provide input in this bug, to see if
we can figure out a good way to solve it.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen