On July 24, 2020 2:23 am, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask how can I get mips/mipsel arch qemu working on Proxmox?
quoting my own post in the forum thread you linked ;) > we only build the amd64 emulation, and install qemu-system-amd64 as > "kvm" binary. so no, this does not work unless you manually re-build > our pve-qemu-kvm packages with more architecture support and adapt the > perl scripts to use the appropriate qemu-system-XXX binary. > This > <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/emulating-non-x86-machine-types.35801/> > forum post, seems to indicate it should be rather simple, but why was it > disabled to begin with? because for it to make sense we need to implement and maintain the full machine model, which is quite a lot of work for x86 already. all the other arches are rather niche, so the cost of implementation and maintenance is rather high. > # apt install qemu-system-mipsel > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'qemu-system-mips' instead of 'qemu-system-mipsel' > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > qemu-system-mips : Depends: qemu-system-common (> 1:2.12~) but it is > not going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > and > > Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main amd64 > qemu-system-common amd64 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u6 [989 kB] > Fetched 989 kB in 0s (5,040 kB/s) > W: (pve-apt-hook) !! WARNING !! > W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package > 'proxmox-ve'! > W: (pve-apt-hook) > W: (pve-apt-hook) If you really want to permanently remove 'proxmox-ve' > from your system, run the following command > W: (pve-apt-hook) touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve' > W: (pve-apt-hook) run apt purge proxmox-ve to remove the meta-package > W: (pve-apt-hook) and repeat your apt invocation. > W: (pve-apt-hook) > W: (pve-apt-hook) If you are unsure why 'proxmox-ve' would be removed, > please verify > W: (pve-apt-hook) - your APT repository settings > W: (pve-apt-hook) - that you are using 'apt full-upgrade' to > upgrade your system > E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (1) > E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook the above attempts to install the stock qemu package from Debian Buster, which is not compatible with our stack and Qemu packages.. _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
