[pve-devel] Enabling mips/mipsel support in Hypervisor

[Skyler Mäntysaari]

So how can I get it to build also mips/mipsel qemu-system image?
That to me did not really tell me how it's disabled but what would be 
needed so I can build the support?

On 24/07/2020 8.10, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On July 24, 2020 2:23 am, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to ask how can I get mips/mipsel arch qemu working on Proxmox?
> quoting my own post in the forum thread you linked ;)
>
>> we only build the amd64 emulation, and install qemu-system-amd64 as
>> "kvm" binary. so no, this does not work unless you manually re-build
>> our pve-qemu-kvm packages with more architecture support and adapt the
>> perl scripts to use the appropriate qemu-system-XXX binary.
>
>> This
>> <https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/emulating-non-x86-machine-types.35801/>
>> forum post, seems to indicate it should be rather simple, but why was it
>> disabled to begin with?
> because for it to make sense we need to implement and maintain the full
> machine model, which is quite a lot of work for x86 already. all the
> other arches are rather niche, so the cost of implementation and
> maintenance is rather high.
>
>> # apt install qemu-system-mipsel
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Note, selecting 'qemu-system-mips' instead of 'qemu-system-mipsel'
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>    qemu-system-mips : Depends: qemu-system-common (> 1:2.12~) but it is
>> not going to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> and
>>
>> Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main amd64
>> qemu-system-common amd64 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u6 [989 kB]
>> Fetched 989 kB in 0s (5,040 kB/s)
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) !! WARNING !!
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package
>> 'proxmox-ve'!
>> W: (pve-apt-hook)
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) If you really want to permanently remove 'proxmox-ve'
>> from your system, run the following command
>> W: (pve-apt-hook)       touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve'
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) run apt purge proxmox-ve to remove the meta-package
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) and repeat your apt invocation.
>> W: (pve-apt-hook)
>> W: (pve-apt-hook) If you are unsure why 'proxmox-ve' would be removed,
>> please verify
>> W: (pve-apt-hook)       - your APT repository settings
>> W: (pve-apt-hook)       - that you are using 'apt full-upgrade' to
>> upgrade your system
>> E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (1)
>> E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook
> the above attempts to install the stock qemu package from Debian Buster,
> which is not compatible with our stack and Qemu packages..
>
>
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