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Bug 1066581 - qemu-system-arm does not work
Summary: qemu-system-arm does not work
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: rawhide
Hardware: arm
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: ARMTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-18 16:38 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2015-08-14 09:14 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-08-14 09:14:32 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:

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build.log (2.02 MB, text/plain)
2014-06-11 06:59 UTC, Richard W.M. Jones 		no flags Details
root.log (180.83 KB, text/plain)
2014-06-11 06:59 UTC, Richard W.M. Jones 		no flags Details
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2014-02-18 16:38:12 UTC 
Description of problem:

Currently qemu-system-arm in Rawhide is unable to start VMs.

See for example this build log:

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/3336/6543336/build.log

At the end you'll see where we attempt to boot the current
kernel on qemu-system-arm.  It doesn't print any messages at
all, just exits abruptly after ~ 3 seconds.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu 1.7.0-4.fc21

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run libguestfs-test-tool

Additional info:

I notice that qemu-sanity-check isn't enabled in the arm build, so
I'm going to enable it there (informational only still) so we
can see if that very simple test also fails.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-02-18 18:49:46 UTC 
I have added qemu-sanity-check to the qemu build.

qemu works on i386 and x86-64 (as expected).  Unfortunately the
results are not useful on arm at the moment as I don't think
qemu-sanity-check is able to locate the right device tree or
kernel (bug 1066637).
Comment 2 Paolo Bonzini 2014-06-06 10:02:52 UTC 
Please attach the build.log since it has expired.
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-06-10 20:17:48 UTC 
This is quite an old bug and qemu has moved forwards a great
deal.  I've therefore kicked off another scratch build in Rawhide:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7033643

If this build fails in the same way then I will attach the root/build logs.
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-06-11 06:59:10 UTC 
Created attachment 907498 [details]
build.log

build.log from failed build.  Note you should scroll right to the
bottom of the output.

I cannot see any error from qemu-system-arm, it just doesn't start up.
Comment 5 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-06-11 06:59:38 UTC 
Created attachment 907499 [details]
root.log
Comment 6 Peter Robinson 2014-08-13 13:54:56 UTC 
So trying to do this on an ARMv7 device that is running in hyp mode I get issues as well.

qemu-common-2.1.0-0.5.rc3.fc21.armv7hl
qemu-system-arm-2.1.0-0.5.rc3.fc21.armv7hl
qemu-img-2.1.0-0.5.rc3.fc21.armv7hl
qemu-kvm-2.1.0-0.5.rc3.fc21.armv7hl
kernel-lpae-3.16.0-1.fc21.armv7hl
kernel-lpae-modules-3.16.0-1.fc21.armv7hl
kernel-lpae-core-3.16.0-1.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-client-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.6-2.fc21.armv7hl
libvirt-python-1.2.6-1.fc21.armv7hl


# virt-install --name=f21-arm --file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/f21-arm.img --file-size=8 --nonsparse --graphics none --extra-args console=ttyS0 --vcpus=1 --ram=512 --location=http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux/development/21/armhfp/os/ --network bridge=br0 --os-type=linux --os-variant fedora20

Starting install...
Retrieving file .treeinfo...                                                                                                   |  53 kB  00:00:00 !!! 
Retrieving file vmlinuz...                                                                                                     |  10 MB  00:00:04 !!! 
Retrieving file initrd.img...                                                                                                  |  63 MB  00:00:26 !!! 
ERROR    internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem:
KVM is not supported for this guest CPU type
kvm_init_vcpu failed: Invalid argument

Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
  virsh --connect qemu:///system start f21-arm
otherwise, please restart your installation.
[root@cubietruck ~]#
Comment 7 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:29:52 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
Comment 8 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-08-13 20:35:20 UTC 
I re-enabled the tests on arm and aarch64, so let's see what happens.
Comment 9 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-08-14 09:14:32 UTC 
It took (literally) 12 hours to run the tests on ARM, but it
did work.  I'm probably going to disable the tests again however ..
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