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bug#61986: Installing qemu-binfmt with support for emulating the host ar
From: |
J. Sims |
Subject: |
bug#61986: Installing qemu-binfmt with support for emulating the host architecture breaks everything |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 18:33:07 +0000 |
Hey y'all,
I recently setup virtualization on my Guix machine (both libvirt and qemu, for
different purposes). While configuring libvirt (via virt-manager), I got a bit
confused about how to make things work and also installed qemu-binfmt for
x86_64, the host architecture. Upon my next reboot, however, I reached a
fully-booted TTY and was unable to do anything else. GDM was not launching, and
if I attempted to login to the TTY itself, I was greeted by an error message
like the following:
"cannot execute /gnu/store/path-to-something/bin/thing: Too many layers of
symlinks"
After some misadventures, I have finally narrowed down that the cause of this
issue was having x86_64 in the list of qemu-binfmt-configuration platforms
while running on x86_64. I assume that including the host architecture in the
list of platforms for qemu-binfmt will do this regardless of architecture, but
cannot currently test this.
Here's what I believe to be a minimum reproducible example for x86_64:
```
(operating-system
...
(services (cons*
(service qemu-binfmt-service-type
(qemu-binfmt-configuration
(platforms (lookup-qemu-platforms "x86_64"))))
...)
...)
```
Good luck,
Juli
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