Bug 1287716

TODO: Check whether we need "stateless address" configuration (via NDP), too, since this seems not to be supported by SLOF yet.

The following two commits should fix the issue with the stateless address autoconfiguration:

https://github.com/aik/SLOF/commit/7dc047e600063e13915a81d05713769d96fdcf7c
https://github.com/aik/SLOF/commit/a9aa48d28ab32ccf6820d01aa58ac9c9fdc857fb

Booting does not work yet if the TFTP server is behind a router. I opened a separate BZ to track this: 1301081

Beside the problem with the router (BZ 1301081), there are two other issues left in the IPv6 code of SLOF, fixed by the following upstream commits:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=c006b3827032e9f5a8
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=02facda6a5078b2f28

Posted the two patches that I've mentioned in comment 4.

Andrew discovered that there are some more things to be fixed here, so moving this ticket back to ASSIGNED instead of POST.

Here's a list with all remaining fixes to the currently known problems:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=c006b3827032e9f5a8
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=02facda6a5078b2f28
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=54d4589f6c2a5d90ac
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a70b4a73257cf97e5
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f8c4e64148b509d1a
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=8870f4400f954ce9b9
http://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commitdiff;h=29eb8e25cf0cb9f584

Hi, Thomas

I tested this bug with the following version but hit a problem, could you help check?  Thanks.

Test version:
[root@ibm-p8-kvm-02-qe ~]# uname -r
3.10.0-421.el7.ppc64le
[root@ibm-p8-kvm-02-qe ~]# rpm -q qemu-kvm-rhev
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-4.el7.ppc64le
[root@ibm-p8-kvm-02-qe ~]# rpm -q SLOF
SLOF-20160223-3.gitdbbfda4.el7.noarch

Steps:

1. Boot up a vm on host to be the TFTP server and DHCPv6 server:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -nographic -vga none -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=ipv6net1,mac=02:ca:fe:00:02:02 -netdev socket,id=ipv6net1,listen=:11122 -drive file=dhcpv6server.qcow2,if=none,format=qcow2,id=block-1 -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=block-1,id=block-1

2. Configuration o this vm:
#yum install dhcp
#nmcli c add type ethernet ifname eth0 con-name eth0 ip6 fc00:1::1
#ifup eth0
#ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fc00:1::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::ca:feff:fe00:202  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:ca:fe:00:02:02  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 88070  bytes 5819948 (5.5 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 88126  bytes 98306870 (93.7 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

#systemctl stop firewalld
#echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding
#echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

#cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf :
 default-lease-time 2592000;
 preferred-lifetime 604800;
 dhcpv6-lease-file-name "/var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd6.leases";
 log-facility local7;
 subnet6 fc00:1::/64 {
        interface enp0s0;
        range6 fc00:1::1000 fc00:1::2000;
        option dhcp6.bootfile-url "tftp://[fc00:2::ca:feff:fe00:302]/zImage";
        option dhcp6.name-servers fc00:1::1;
 }

systemctl enable dhcpd6
systemctl start dhcpd6

#yum install tftp-server
#systemctl enable tftp.socket
#systemctl start tftp.socket
#cp /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-* /var/lib/tftpboot/zImage

3. I boot up another vm with pre-installed os to check whether the tftp server works:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -nographic -vga none -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=ipv6net,mac=02:ca:fe:00:01:02 -netdev socket,id=ipv6net,connect=:11122 -drive file=rhel72-ppc64le-virtio.qcow2,if=none,format=qcow2,id=block-2 -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=block-2,id=block-2

After guest bootup:
[root@dhcp71-196 ~]#  systemctl stop firewalld
[root@dhcp71-196 ~]# tftp -6 fc00:1::1 -c get zImage
[root@dhcp71-196 ~]# ls -lrth 
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  18M Jun  2 16:41 zImage
...

4. Shutdown this vm and boot a empty guest image to test the net boot function:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -nographic -vga none -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=ipv6net,mac=02:ca:fe:00:01:02 -netdev socket,id=ipv6net,connect=:11122 -drive file=dhcpv6client.qcow2,if=none,format=qcow2,id=block-2 -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=block-2,id=block-2

At the early stage of boot, press "s" to enter the SLOF firmware. 

And then I tried "manual boot", "semi-manual boot" and "automatic boot", all can not work well, client could get the zImage on the TFTP server but failed to proceed:

(1)
...
Ready! 
0 > boot net:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage,fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102  
Trying to load:  from: /pci@800000020000000/ethernet@0:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage,fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102 ... 
 Initializing NIC
  Reading MAC address from device: 02:ca:fe:00:01:02
  Using IPv6 address: fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102
  Requesting file "zImage" via TFTP from fc00:1::1
  Receiving data:  18051 KBytes
  TFTP: Received zImage (18051 KBytes)
ELF64: VirtAddr(c000000000000000) != PhysAddr(0) not supported, aborting

E3403: Bad executable:   

E3406: Client application returned an error.

        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
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       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`       
        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`       
  Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
  Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.

 ok
0 > 

(2)
...
Ready! 
0 > boot net:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage  
Trying to load:  from: /pci@800000020000000/ethernet@0:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage ... 
 Initializing NIC
  Reading MAC address from device: 02:ca:fe:00:01:02
  Using IPv6 address: fc00:1::2ca:feff:fe00:102
  Requesting file "zImage" via TFTP from fc00:1::1
  Receiving data:  18051 KBytes
  TFTP: Received zImage (18051 KBytes)
ELF64: VirtAddr(c000000000000000) != PhysAddr(0) not supported, aborting

E3403: Bad executable:   

E3406: Client application returned an error.

        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''.       .`''```''`.  `''``````
       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`       
        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`       
  Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
  Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.

 ok
0 > 


(3)
...
0 > boot net:ipv6  
Trying to load:  from: /pci@800000020000000/ethernet@0:ipv6 ... 
 Initializing NIC
  Reading MAC address from device: 02:ca:fe:00:01:02
  Requesting information via DHCPv6: done
  Using IPv6 address: fc00:1::2ca:feff:fe00:102
  Requesting file "zImage" via TFTP from fc00:1::1
  Receiving data:  18051 KBytes
  TFTP: Received zImage (18051 KBytes)
ELF64: VirtAddr(c000000000000000) != PhysAddr(0) not supported, aborting

E3403: Bad executable:   

E3406: Client application returned an error.

        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''.       .`''```''`.  `''``````
       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`       
        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`       
  Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
  Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.

 ok
0 >

I installed the dhcp, tftp-server, tftp packages previously with external network. And when I did the above testing, only attach the nic device with ipv6 address.

(In reply to Qunfang Zhang from comment #9)
[...]
> #yum install tftp-server
> #systemctl enable tftp.socket
> #systemctl start tftp.socket
> #cp /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-* /var/lib/tftpboot/zImage
[...]
> 0 > boot net:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage,fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102  
> Trying to load:  from:
> /pci@800000020000000/ethernet@0:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage,fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:
> 102 ... 
>  Initializing NIC
>   Reading MAC address from device: 02:ca:fe:00:01:02
>   Using IPv6 address: fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102
>   Requesting file "zImage" via TFTP from fc00:1::1
>   Receiving data:  18051 KBytes
>   TFTP: Received zImage (18051 KBytes)
> ELF64: VirtAddr(c000000000000000) != PhysAddr(0) not supported, aborting
> 
> E3403: Bad executable:   
> 
> E3406: Client application returned an error.

Ah, sorry, that was a bad idea of mine to suggest to use a file from /boot/vmlinuz* to be used as network booting kernel ... the kernels from /boot can not be used to be started from the SLOF firmware directly, you need a special kernel for this instead.

After replaced the kernel to boot, now IPV6 boot succeeds for all the following boot methods:

(1)manual boot, like:
0 > boot net:ipv6,fc00:1::1,ppc64.img,fc00:1::ca:feff:fe00:102  

(2)semi-manual boot, like:
0 > boot net:ipv6,fc00:1::1,zImage  

(3)automatic boot, like:
0 > boot net:ipv6

Test version and test steps are the same as comment 9, so not paste duplicate comment here.  Will attach some screenshots.

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Setting to VERIFIED according to comment 9, comment 10 and comment 14.

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/RHEA-2016-2355.html