Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi Mike, We're still waiting for your input, see Karsten's reply, quoted in full below: Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2016-07-07): > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 04:22:57PM -0400, Mike wrote: > > > Package: debian-installer > > Version: 20160516+b1 > > > > Installing Debian using QEMU aarch64 (and looks like arm as well) requires > > extra steps due to lack of initrd and kernel support for virtio devices. While > > there is a workaround documented below, this seems like something that should > > be added to the distro build to incorporate support directly. > > > > https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html > > > > See block 14. > > I have just tried running a current arm64 debian-installer build > in qemu as described above and the network is functional there: > > ~ # ip addr > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1 > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > inet6 ::1/128 scope host > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen > 1000 > link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 10.0.2.15/24 scope global eth0 > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > inet6 fec0::5054:ff:fe12:3456/64 scope site dynamic > valid_lft 86168sec preferred_lft 14168sec > inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456/64 scope link > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > ~ # lsmod > Module Size Used by > virtio_blk 12059 0 > virtio_net 30113 0 > virtio_mmio 7649 0 > virtio_ring 16560 3 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_mmio > virtio 7902 3 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_mmio > > Does the problem still occur for you with a current d-i build? > > The test setup was as follows: > > $ wget https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/arm64/linux > $ wget https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/arm64/initrd.gz > $ qemu-img create disk.img 10G > $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -m 256 -drive file=disk.img,if=none,id=blk -device virtio-blk-device,drive=blk -net user,hostfwd=tcp::2014-:22 -device virtio-net-device,vlan=0 -kernel linux -initrd initrd.gz -append "console=ttyAMA0 --" -nographic > > Regards, > Karsten > -- > Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung > sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der > Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung. KiBi.
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