Bug 1270430

Summary: virt-install failed with install SLES 12 vm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Wayne Sun <gsun>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2CC: dyuan, dzheng, juzhang, juzhou, michen, mzhan, phrdina, shuang, tzheng, xiaodwan
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: ppc64le   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: virt-manager-1.3.2-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 01:58:59 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Wayne Sun 2015-10-10 03:15:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
virt-install failed with install with SLES 12, the hvm kernel path dir is not right for SLES 12.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q virt-install virt-manager-common
virt-install-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch
virt-manager-common-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare a SLES 12 iso and install vm
# virt-install --name gsun_sles12_le -l /home/gsun/SLES-12-Server-DVD-ppc64le-GM-DVD1.iso --ram=2048 --vcpus=2 --hvm --debug --graphics vnc --wait -1 --prompt --accelerate --os-variant=virtio26 --network=network:default,model=spapr-vlan --serial pty --console pty --disk path=/home/gsun/sles12le_virtio.qcow2,size=8,bus='virtio' --extra-args "serial console=tty0 console=hvc0 netsetup=dhcp" --noreboot --os-variant sled12

it will fail at:
Retrieving file content...                                                                                                                                                                                            |  22 kB  00:00:00     
[Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:07:48 virt-install 14681] DEBUG (urlfetcher:196) local hasFile: Couldn't find /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinstmnt.ROJaT9/boot/ppc64le/loader/linux
[Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:07:48 virt-install 14681] DEBUG (urlfetcher:196) local hasFile: Couldn't find /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinstmnt.ROJaT9/boot/loader/linux

The right kernel path should be "/boot/linux" not "/boot/loader/linux"

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Actual results:
fail

Expected results:
success

Additional info:
Comment 1 Wayne Sun 2015-10-10 03:19:58 UTC 
correct the info of the right kernel path, it should be "boot/$arch_name/linux", just without 'loader' dir.
Comment 3 Pavel Hrdina 2015-10-12 11:11:02 UTC 
Hi, could you please run those steps again with '--debug' parameter?

Thanks, Pavel.
Comment 4 Wayne Sun 2015-10-13 02:24:09 UTC 
Created attachment 1082206 [details]
virt-install debug log
Comment 7 Pavel Hrdina 2015-11-02 16:41:44 UTC 
Upstream commit:

commit 4578a4ec0f7c17d0a3b00a213f5e2dc07cb37f0b
Author: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Date:   Mon Nov 2 13:43:59 2015 +0100

    virt-install: use correct path for linux and initrd for SLES on ppc64
    
    Install DVD of SLES for ppc64 has different path where linux and initrd
    are located.  Add those paths to kernel_paths to search also there, in
    case we are installing SLES on ppc64 host.
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270430
    
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Comment 9 Mike McCune 2016-03-28 23:17:33 UTC 
This bug was accidentally moved from POST to MODIFIED via an error in automation, please see mmccune with any questions
Comment 11 Xiaodai Wang 2016-07-19 11:17:58 UTC 
I can reproduce it with virt-manager-1.2.1-8.el7.noarch:

Steps:
# virt-install --name testvm --memory 1024 --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/testvm.img,size=5 -l /var/lib/libvirt/images/SLE-12-Server-DVD-ppc64le-GM-DVD1.iso 
WARNING  Graphics requested but DISPLAY is not set. Not running virt-viewer.
WARNING  No console to launch for the guest, defaulting to --wait -1

Starting install...
Retrieving file content...                                                                                                                                                                  |  22 kB  00:00:00     
ERROR    Couldn't find hvm kernel for SUSE tree.

then upgrade to latest , the installation can be started successfully.

So move the bug from ON_QA to VERIFIED.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 01:58:59 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2269.html