Re: Can't use kvm image - hangs at boot

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>]

Am 19.02.21 um 18:01 schrieb Paul Dufresne:
> I was not able to reproduce your problem.
> 
> Did:
> wget
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.xz
> <http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.xz>
> paul@jacko:~/hurd1905$ sha1sum debian-hurd.img.tar.xz
> 1fe25529095a30d5b8fe7c889566f6af56ae41cf  debian-hurd.img.tar.xz
> 
> Each time I try to launch, I erase the old .img and:
> tar xJf debian-hurd.img.tar.xz
> resulting with:
> paul@jacko:~/hurd1905$ sha1sum debian-hurd-20190705.img
> 332c6ae2ca9ebc8d01c429b0f9dfebe625800e21  debian-hurd-20190705.img
> 
> paul@jacko:~/hurd1905$ kvm --version
> QEMU emulator version 5.0.0 (Debian 1:5.0-5ubuntu9.4)
> Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
> 
> I suggest you try:
> kvm -m 1G -smp cpus=1,cores=1  -drive
> file=debian-hurd-20190705.img,cache=writeback
> or:

Based on your post, I tried the following command six times, ans got the
hang as before each time:

rm debian-hurd-20190705.img && tar xJf debian-hurd.img.tar.xz && kvm -m
1G -smp cpus=1,cores=1 -drive file=debian-hurd-20190705.img,cache=writeback