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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 17:56:27 +0200
Subject: services: hurd-vm: Use ‘qemu-system-x86_64’.
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Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66053>.

* gnu/services/virtualization.scm (hurd-vm-shepherd-service)[vm-command]:
Use ‘qemu-system-x86_64’.
---
 gnu/services/virtualization.scm | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'gnu/services/virtualization.scm')

diff --git a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
index eef7ffd1c7..e1a206e0eb 100644
--- a/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/virtualization.scm
@@ -1163,7 +1163,9 @@ is added to the OS specified in CONFIG."
         (provisions  '(hurd-vm childhurd)))
 
     (define vm-command
-      #~(append (list #$(file-append qemu "/bin/qemu-system-i386")
+      ;; XXX: Use the x86_64 emulator instead of the i386 one to work around
+      ;; "Bad ram pointer" issues: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66053>.
+      #~(append (list #$(file-append qemu "/bin/qemu-system-x86_64")
                       "-m" (number->string #$memory-size)
                       #$@net-options
                       #$@options
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