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

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: severity -1 serious

Hello,

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 09:22:28PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
> 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.

I just ran into this issue, and it makes images generated using the
defaults unusable. Releasing like this would be terrible.

I think I was able to cherry-pick the relevant changes from the master
branch, and I will try to fix this.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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