qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

[Eddy Pronk]

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The documentation says:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \
  -net user -net nic,model=virtio -boot menu=on \
  -drive file=guixsd.img \
  -drive file=guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.system

I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5.

At some point during the boot process the console get garbled with snow.

I found out the passing -vga std to qemu fixes that in my case.

Cheers,

Eddy

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qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

[Eddy Pronk]

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On starting the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux image, the
documentation says:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \
  -net user -net nic,model=virtio -boot menu=on \
  -drive file=guixsd.img \
  -drive file=guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.system

I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5.

At some point during the boot process the console got garbled with snow.

I found out the passing -vga std to qemu fixes that in my case.

Cheers,
Eddy

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Re: qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

[Leo Famulari]

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On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:48:08PM +1000, Eddy Pronk wrote:
> On starting the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux image, the
> documentation says:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \
>   -net user -net nic,model=virtio -boot menu=on \
>   -drive file=guixsd.img \
>   -drive file=guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.system
> 
> I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5.
> 
> At some point during the boot process the console got garbled with snow.

Could you give any more details? Could it be another case of
<https://bugs.gnu.org/24948>?

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Re: qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

[Eddy Pronk]

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I made a video of the point where the console becomes messy.

https://youtu.be/GcaqtfIRGrA

Cheers,
Eddy

On 3 Jun 2017 1:43 am, "Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:48:08PM +1000, Eddy Pronk wrote:
> > On starting the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux image, the
> > documentation says:
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1 \
> >   -net user -net nic,model=virtio -boot menu=on \
> >   -drive file=guixsd.img \
> >   -drive file=guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.system
> >
> > I'm using qemu 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5.
> >
> > At some point during the boot process the console got garbled with snow.
>
> Could you give any more details? Could it be another case of
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/24948>?
>

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Re: qemu issue with "Installing GuixSD in a VM"

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 08:57:02AM +1000, Eddy Pronk wrote:
> I made a video of the point where the console becomes messy.
> 
> https://youtu.be/GcaqtfIRGrA

Ah, that's a different issue, although I'm not sure what causes it.

Can you try a more recent version of QEMU? 2.0.0 is only 3 years old, but a huge
number of bugs have been fixed since then, and I think most of us are testing
against later versions, such as the one offered in Guix. I know Ubuntu backports
bug fixes, but I doubt they can port all of them.

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