Re: Issue using recent bookworm generic images with vmware?
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:22:09PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>A colleague has been successfully using the bookworm generic amd64
>images for some time with vmware 8.0.2. He's using the emulated SATA
>controller there for the rootfs. He has some automation that grabs an
>images, converts to ova for vmware and then installs some extra
>packages and config with ansible.
>
>This has been working just fine for some time, but has stopped
>working recently(ish), with the kernel failing to find init. He's gone
>back and checked a few older images to see where things broke:
>
>20240717-1811  works
>20240901-1857  works
>20241004-1890  works
>
>20241110-1927  fails
>20241125-1942  fails
>20241201-1948  fails
>20250112-1990  fails
>20250115-1993  fails
>20250210-2019  fails
Screenshots showing failures at
https://www.einval.com/~steve/tmp/cloud-screenshots/
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