Checkbox Provider - Base

virtualization script does not support POWER8NVL

Bug #1659929 reported by Mike Rushton
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Checkbox Provider - Base
Fix Released
High
Mike Rushton
Checkbox Provider - Base 0.34.0

Bug Description

The KVM virtualization script /usr/lib/plainbox-provider-checkbox/bin/virtualization does not support Power8NVL cpu type. This is due to the script assuming POWER8 when passing qemu the parameters for a ppc architecture.

This is related to the following bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1656112

Revision history for this message
Mike Rushton (leftyfb) wrote :

The specific lines in /usr/lib/plainbox-provider-checkbox/bin/virtualization are

   'ppc64el': {
        'cloudimg_type': CLOUD_IMAGE_TYPE_DISK,
        'cloudimg_arch': 'ppc64el',
        'qemu_bin': 'qemu-system-ppc64',
        'qemu_disk_type': QEMU_DISK_TYPE_VIRTIO,
        'qemu_extra_args': [
            '-enable-kvm',
            '-machine', 'pseries,usb=off',
            '-cpu', 'POWER8',
        ],

Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Mike Rushton (leftyfb)
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Jeff Lane  (bladernr)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Sylvain Pineau (sylvain-pineau)
affects: plainbox-provider-checkbox (Ubuntu) → plainbox-provider-checkbox
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
milestone: none → 0.34.0
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Mike Rushton (leftyfb)
Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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