From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: 22633@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:47:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160213004714.GA27228@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4ap954w.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:04:47AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:50:09AM +1100, Jookia wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >> > So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work. In fact, even
> >> > starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system.
> >> > Not only does "guix system vm" not work, even "guix system vm-image" can
> >> > take the whole machine down!
> >>
> >> Currently the 'solution' I've found is to edit Guix to remove the two instances
> >> of '--enable-kvm' which works somewhat, though it's slower as there's absolutely
> >> no acceleration.
> >>
> >> > It would be nice to have a --no-kvm switch, because I'd really like to
> >> > make use of Guix's nice VM features!
> >
> > It's not a proper fix, but this patch achieves that on my non-Libreboot
> > machine. Can you see if it works for you?
> >
> > [...]
>
> Good news there, that does work and I am able to boot a VM through that
> route!
>
> I would really like to be able to protect myself from accidentally
> crashing my system by making sure that if /dev/kvm is not there that we
> don't do --enable-kvm, so maybe I could do that if we can figure out how
> to make blacklisting actually work. In the meanwhile, maybe I should
> add a --no-kvm flag to "guix system vm"?
We definitely want to automatically disable KVM if it's not available.
But I think it would also be useful to have a --no-kvm option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-11 17:26 bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 22:50 ` Jookia
2016-02-12 0:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-12 18:04 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-13 0:47 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-02-12 9:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-12 17:47 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-13 19:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-21 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 8:08 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-21 12:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-22 18:56 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 19:35 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 19:43 ` Jookia
2016-02-22 21:27 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-22 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-22 21:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-23 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
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