[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-06 Thread Mike Rushton
1. the bug reporter is using a powervm partition. KVM cannot be used there. This is not a KVM bug. PowerVM mode is an LPAR. It is not a kvm instance trying to run an KVM within. This was also working in 14.04 without issue and is being asked of us from IBM to certify 2. the xenial cloud images ha

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-06 Thread Mike Rushton
I have also shown that this issue has the exact same results on PowerNV above. ** Changed in: qemu Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is sub

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-05 Thread Mike Rushton
The PowerVM machine I've been using for these tests has the following output: ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep platform platform: pSeries The PowerNV server has the following output: ubuntu@binacle:~$ cat /etc/issue; uname -a ; ppc64_cpu --smt ; cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-05 Thread Mike Rushton
Sorry, I copied the wrong thing: sudo qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 256 -display none -nographic -net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::-:22 -machine pseries -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive file=seed.iso,if=virtio ioctl(KVM_CREA

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-05 Thread Mike Rushton
@serge-hallyn ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ cat /etc/issue; uname -a ; ppc64_cpu --smt Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) \n \l Linux alpine01 4.4.0-17-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 29 17:15:31 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux SMT is off ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ qemu-system-ppc64 -m 256

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-05 Thread Mike Rushton
@mdroth I don't think PPC supports kvm the same way as x86: ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 256 -display none -nographic -net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::-:22 -machine pseries -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-05 Thread Mike Rushton
ubuntu@alpine01:~$ sudo ppc64_cpu --smt=1 ubuntu@alpine01:~$ ppc64_cpu --info Core 0:0*1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Core 1:8*9101112131415 Core 2: 16* 17181920212223 Core 3: 24* 252627282

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Rushton
ubuntu@alpine01:~$ ppc64_cpu --info Core 0:0*1*2*3*4*5*6*7* Core 1:8*9* 10* 11* 12* 13* 14* 15* Core 2: 16* 17* 18* 19* 20* 21* 22* 23* Core 3: 24* 25* 26* 27* 28* 29* 30* 31* Core 4: 32* 33* 34*

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

2016-03-31 Thread Mike Rushton
I have installed qemu-slof from trusty and ran again: qemu-slof: Installed: 20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main ppc64el Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status