GNU bug report logs - #61011
‘guix system vm’ spawns QEMU and hangs

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From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>, Ludovic Courtès
 <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 61011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>,
 Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#61011: ‘guix system vm’ spawns QEMU and hangs
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:59:35 +0100

Hi,
Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:36:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>   $(guix time-machine --commit=9923100a42ffa80f604c1c13a5e999e6a4c15146 \
>>     -- system vm gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl) -m 1024  # Bad!
>
> I can reproduce.
>
> It seems to work fine without '-m 1024', in which case it only has 512
> MB RAM.

This is probably due to the following kernel bug [1], which could be
related to the khugepaged hangs I'm getting on my system since 6.1.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/b8017e09-f336-3035-8344-c549086c2340 <at> kernel.org/ 


Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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