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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-05-25 12:04:22 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-05-25 13:43:03 +0200
commit98e0b1288f387165f5a2240cb98f2ae1f8d2fc8a (patch)
treeb203b109b4fb4c457bbe3d90bf6ba7ee193adef1 /gnu
parent4806d390cb5ffd867dae663f71ea766d44378a2c (diff)
downloadguix-98e0b1288f387165f5a2240cb98f2ae1f8d2fc8a.tar.gz
vm: Pass "panic=1" to Linux.
* gnu/build/vm.scm (load-in-linux-vm): Always pass "panic=1" after '-append'.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/vm.scm13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/vm.scm b/gnu/build/vm.scm
index 989b74f4f1..fa3ce7790d 100644
--- a/gnu/build/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/vm.scm
@@ -106,11 +106,16 @@ the #:references-graphs parameter of 'derivation'."
                  (not target-arm32?))
             '("-enable-kvm")
             '())
+
+      ;; Pass "panic=1" so that the guest dies upon error.
       "-append"
-      ;; The serial port name differs between emulated architectures/machines.
-      ,@(if target-arm32?
-            `(,(string-append "console=ttyAMA0 --load=" builder))
-            `(,(string-append "console=ttyS0 --load=" builder)))
+      ,(string-append "panic=1 --load=" builder
+
+                      ;; The serial port name differs between emulated
+                      ;; architectures/machines.
+                      " console="
+                      (if target-arm32? "ttyAMA0" "ttyS0"))
+
       ;; NIC is not supported on ARM "virt" machine, so use a user mode
       ;; network stack instead.
       ,@(if target-arm32?