Message ID | 11e63f303ba42376ebc029c67f13b59bdb0af263.1684402361.git.janneke@gnu.org |
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State | New |
Headers | show |
Series | Rumpdisk support for the Hurd, really! | expand |
Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis: > When booting with pci-arbiter and rumpdisk and using 1024MB of memory for > qemu, booting hangs, or seems to hang, at the end of the rumpdisk boot > messages. At least 1200MB is required, currently. > > * gnu/services/virtualization.scm (<hurd-vm-configuration>)[memory-size]: Bump > to 2048. > * gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl: Suggest using 2048 here too. Update > example `guix system image' and "qemu" command lines too. Sounds a bit fishy. :-) Does Debian resort to a similar workaround? Ludo’.
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis: > >> When booting with pci-arbiter and rumpdisk and using 1024MB of memory for >> qemu, booting hangs, or seems to hang, at the end of the rumpdisk boot >> messages. At least 1200MB is required, currently. >> >> * gnu/services/virtualization.scm (<hurd-vm-configuration>)[memory-size]: Bump >> to 2048. >> * gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl: Suggest using 2048 here too. Update >> example `guix system image' and "qemu" command lines too. > > Sounds a bit fishy. :-) > > Does Debian resort to a similar workaround? Yes, Debian has the same problem, the latest debian image (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-20220824.img) hangs in an identical way. See https://logs.guix.gnu.org/hurd/2023-05-18.log#091300 youpi seid "rumpdisk is very eaty, we need to fix that" Greetings, Janneke
diff --git a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm index 2e311e3813..886b73f8c7 100644 --- a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm +++ b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2017 Ryan Moe <ryan.moe@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2020-2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> -;;; Copyright © 2020,2021 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> +;;; Copyright © 2020, 2021, 2023 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2021 Timotej Lazar <timotej.lazar@araneo.si> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2022 Leo Nikkilä <hello@lnikki.la> @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ (define-record-type* <hurd-vm-configuration> (disk-size hurd-vm-configuration-disk-size ;number or 'guess (default 'guess)) (memory-size hurd-vm-configuration-memory-size ;number - (default 512)) + (default 2048)) (options hurd-vm-configuration-options ;list of string (default `("--snapshot"))) (id hurd-vm-configuration-id ;#f or integer [1..] diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl index f0dd0cf742..463c7ee798 100644 --- a/gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl +++ b/gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ ;; To build a disk image for a virtual machine, do ;; -;; ./pre-inst-env guix system image --target=i586-pc-gnu \ +;; ./pre-inst-env guix system image --image-type=hurd-raw \ ;; gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl ;; ;; You may run it like so ;; -;; guix environment --ad-hoc qemu -- qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 512M \ +;; guix shell qemu -- qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 2048 \ ;; -device rtl8139,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10022-:2222 \ ;; -snapshot -hda <the-image> ;;