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Description of problem:
I have x86_64 hardware and I tried to virt-install virtual machine using ia64
vmlinuz and initrd. This obviously ended up in failure but the error message
gave me several hours of wondering what went wrong.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel 6.3
python-virtinst-0.600.0-8.el6.noarch
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
How reproducible: always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run
/usr/sbin/virt-install \
--name rhel59-node01 --ram=1024 --vcpus=1 --nodisks --debug \
--location http://sts.lab.msp.redhat.com/dist/released/RHEL-5-Server/U8/ia64/tree/
Actual results:
Installation fails with "qemu: linux kernel too old to load a ram disk"
Expected results:
Installation should not lie about the reason of failure and fail with something
more meaningful like "This kernel cannot be run because it has architecture
(ia64) that cannot be virtualized on this architecture (x86_64)".
This message comes from qemu and is simply being reported by virt-install, so I'm changing the component to qemu. If I can help, please let me know.
Comment 3Markus Armbruster
2012-10-12 12:29:20 UTC
Error checking and reporting for -kernel is very poor in general. For instance,
"-kernel /dev/null" is rejected with
qemu: could not load kernel '/dev/null': Argument list too long
Changing bug summary accordingly.