Re: [Qemu-devel] X86_64 problem

[Nathan Froyd]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:33:18PM -0700, Dave Dixon wrote:
> I'm building an initrd for netbooting headless/diskless cluster members. The
> target platform is 64-bit ubuntu, and the development platform is 64-bit
> ubuntu (albeit a very different computer physically). When I try qemu with
> -kernel and -initrd, it says "This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only
> detected an i686 CPU." But it's definitely a 64-bit cpu - running a 64-bit OS.
> If I show qeme -cpu ?, I get a list of only 32-bit cpus. What am I doing 
> wrong?

QEMU is probably compiled for i386, not x86_64.

-Nathan