kvm-ok doesn't return any output on ppc64el

Bug #1470244 reported by Jeff Lane 
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CPU-Checker
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Bug Description

When run on something common, like amd64, for example, kvm-ok returns output like the following:

bladernr@klaatu:~/development/checkbox/providers/plainbox-provider-checkbox/bin$ kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
bladernr@klaatu:~/development/checkbox/providers/plainbox-provider-checkbox/bin$ echo $?
0

However, when run on a ppc64el system (Power8) it does not provide ANY output at all, but still returns a 0 exit status. In this case, KVM IS supported on the hardware, but when debugging it's difficult to know whether kvm-ok is correctly returning a 0 because it found cpu flags or /dev/kvm, or because it doesn't know what to do with ppc64el and just assumes it's OK and exits 0.

We use this as a pre-cursor check in certification testing and while so far it IS correctly exiting 0, it will be difficult to debug KVM issues on test failures if this tool doesn't return output on ppc64el like it does on other architectures.

Jeff Lane  (bladernr)
tags: added: hwcert-server
Revision history for this message
Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

This seems to have been resolved at some point with an update or something. kvm-ok now dumps output to console

Changed in cpu-checker:
status: New → Invalid
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