Hello, in a desperate attempt to understand #852962, thus salvaging ycmd and youcompleteme for stretch, I tried to set up an emulated mipsel machine using libvirt/qemu, and failed horribly. There are tons of documents out there, many years old, contradicting, not helping. So: Is this feasible at all? I could use a pointer then. So far: Create a virtual machine, with installer CD and virtual disk. Then libvirt needs a patch by Aurilien[1][2]. Then libvirt complains about mips_bios.bin although some pages[3] state this was no longer required. Providing a dummy image, the machine starts, but shows just a blank screen and qemu eats 100% CPU. Then booting via "Direct kernel boot", ditto. I've tried several "console=" parameters, no avail. Perhaps libvirt plays tricks on me, wasn't the first time. It *is* possible to start qemu-system-mipsel directly, with an additional '-serial stdio' parameter, but for reasons I'd really like to control the machine using libvirt, and I fail to see how to fiddle the kernel console into the libvirt terminal. - What did I miss? - How comes appearently nobody encounters such issues? Christoph [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-May/msg00197.html [2] Which for whatever reason this did not make it into stretch [3] https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/QEMU#MIPS_BIOS_not_found_on_startup
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