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

["Skyler Mäntysaari" <sm+lists@samip.fi>]

Hi all,

I would like to ask how can I get mips/mipsel arch qemu working on Proxmox?

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?


# 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