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. > > 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. I tested both 5.0.6 and daily d-i images under a 64-bit capable host running lenny with a 686 kernel, and the 'lm' flag was not set in either guest. 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. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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