01-05-2011
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Tell us all the steps you followed to create, and run, the image. Word for word. Letter for letter. Keystroke for keystroke. Whenever you post a question without doing this you're wasting your time.
We don't know what went wrong given that minimal information. Bootloaders are bad for this -- their tiny little brains can't cough up more than a general "it doesn't work" kind of error message when things aren't precisely as they expected, and that's best case. Worst case they just freeze and tell you nothing.
We are not mind readers. We don't even know what you did yet, let alone how to fix it...
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
qemubuilder
qemubuilder(8) pbuilder qemubuilder(8)
NAME
qemubuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for qemu.
SYNOPSIS
qemubuilder [commands] [options]
DESCRIPTION
qemubuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with qemu
COMMANDS
Most commands imitate pbuilder, see pbuilder manual for details.
--create
Create the base.qemu image.
--update
Update the base.qemu image.
--build .dsc-file
Build a package given a .dsc file
--login
Start a session within the base.qemu.
--execute
Execute a command within the base.qemu.
--dumpconfig
dump configuration information.
--arch-diskdevice sd/hd
specify whether disk device inside the virtual machine is called /dev/sda or /dev/hda. The possible value is 'sd' or 'hd'.
--smp 2
The option passed to SMP.
OPTIONS
Most options are the same as pbuilder, except for the following which are handled specially.
SMP 2
The SMP option for qemu.
I don't think I can support bind-mounts in qemu.
Documentation here should be updated according to what's defined in parameter.c, but it isn't.
CONFIGURATION FILES
qemubuilder reads the following configuration files per default.
/usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
Application default, not to be changed.
/etc/pbuilderrc
System-wide default.
~/.pbuilderrc
User default
anything specified with --configfile option
Additional configuration at runtime.
CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS
The possible configuration options are as follows. Others are ignored.
DISTRIBUTION=distribution
BUILDRESULT=directory
BUILDPLACE=directory
BASEPATH=path
MIRRORSITE=http://mirror
KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Linux kernel to use.
INITRD=initrd
initrd to use.
ARCHITECTURE=arch
The target architecture.
You can also use ARCH=arch for compatibility with 0.60 or older.
MEMORY_MEGS=64
memory size to use in qemu session, in MB.
ARCH_DISKDEVICE=hd
The architecture-specific disk device specifier. Most arches use sd these days. The only exceptions were i386 and amd64, which used
to use hd.
EXAMPLES
qemubuilder --create
Create a base.qemu image.
qemubuilder --update
Update the base.qemu image.
qemubuilder --build test_0.1.dsc
Build the package specified in dsc file, with the base.qemu image.
pdebuild --pbuilder qemubuilder
Run qemubuilder --build against the current directory. The current directory should be an extracted Debian source package direc-
tory.
Edit /etc/pbuilderrc to have PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=qemubuilder to make this the default behavior for pdebuild.
qemubuilder --create --distribution sid --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu
Create a base.qemu image with the path /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.qemu and distribution sid.
Example pbuilderrc for i386
KERNEL_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7
INITRD=initrd.img-2.6.18-4-k7
ARCHITECTURE=i386
BASEPATH=/home/dancer/tmp/base-i386.qemu
MEMORY_MEGS=64
Note. INITRD may or may not be required for your system. Debian Installer
initrd may or may not work depending on which one you choose, use the
one from an installed system.
CAVEATS
Note that for mirror specification, http://localhost/debian/ usually
doesn't work, it will be searching for files on the virtual machine
itself, not the host OS.
AUTHOR
Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder (8), pdebuild (1)
pbuilder 2008 Aug 10 qemubuilder(8)