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SRU Justification
Impact: Vms cannot be started on ppc
Test case: define and start a kvm vm on ppc host (as below in description)
Regression potential: This should cause no regressions, but qemu vms will now be able to read device-tree info
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virsh # define vm01.xml
virsh # start Ubuntu-VM01
error: Failed to start domain Ubuntu-VM01
error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem:
Can't open directory /proc/device-tree/cpus/
qemu-system-ppc: -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci,addr=0x1: Bus 'pci' not found
With or without the "controller_type "pci" > statement fails:
(trusty)root@jade-rev4:/home2/qemu# cat *xml
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
<name>Ubuntu-VM01</name>
<uuid>38bbffe5-47e9-4a3b-84b1-1af5ff3f7194</uuid>
<memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='ppc' machine='ppce500'>hvm</type>
<kernel>/home2/qemu/jade-kernel-2.0.bin</kernel>
<initrd>/home2/qemu/jade-initrd-2.0.bin</initrd>
<cmdline>console=ttyS0</cmdline>
</os>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source file='/home2/qemu/jade-ubuntu-14.04.qcow2.netinstall'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<controller type='usb' index='0'/>
<!-- <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> -->
<memballoon model='virtio'/>
</devices>
<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value='-no-shutdown'/>
</qemu:commandline>
</domain>
virsh # start Ubuntu-VM01
error: Failed to start domain Ubuntu-VM01
error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem:
Can't open directory /proc/device-tree/cpus/
qemu-system-ppc: -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci,addr=0x1: Bus 'pci' not found
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libvirt-bin 1.2.2-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-powerpc-e500mc 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-powerpc-e500mc ppc
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Tue May 20 11:39:39 2014
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libvirt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-29 (21 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.libvirt.libvirt.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.libvirt.libvirt.conf: 2014-05-15T15:07:48.854124
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