[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#774588: VM hangs on boot with extlinux and large image

[Christian Kastner]

Control: notfound -1 0.6-1

On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:58:15 +0100 Christian Kastner <debian at kvr.at> wrote:
> Package: vmdebootstrap
> Version: 0.5-1

> When following the usage example from vmdebootstrap(8), qemu fails to
> boot an image if that image is a bit larger than 1GB and extlinux is
> used.

> Steps to reproduce:
>   1074MB image, and larger, hangs:
>     $ sudo vmdebootstrap --image hang.img --size 1074M --owner=`whoami`
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 ./hang.img

I just saw that a new version 0.6-1 of vmdebootstrap has been uploaded
to experimental as I was writing the original report.

I just ran the above test against the new version, and the issue is not
present there.

Regards,
Christian