Bug 1654276
| Summary: | qemu-kvm: Should depend on the architecture-appropriate guest firmware | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Andrea Bolognani <abologna> | |
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Danilo de Paula <ddepaula> | |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Chao Yang <chayang> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | medium | |||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | abologna, chayang, ddepaula, juzhang, knoel, lersek, mrezanin, rbalakri, virt-maint, wchadwic | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | |||
| Target Release: | 8.0 | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | qemu-kvm-2.12.0-52.module+el8+2617+8f1b8f17 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 1660208 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-14 01:36:00 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1660208 | |||
Can you please clarify what's the firmware for each archtecture? % ifarch x86_64 BuildRequires: edk2-ovmf %endif % ifarch aarch64 BuildRequires: edk2-aaarch64 %endif Hi Danilo, that's right -- because we only support hardware virtualization, host and guest architecture should match. Therefore, on aarch64 hosts, edk2-aarch64 should be a dependency, and on x86_64 hosts, edk2-ovmf should be. Please note that these should be runtime dependencies (i.e., "Requires", not "BuildRequires"). Thanks! QA_ACK please Fix is ready waiting for QA_ACK+ to be built. Fix included in qemu-kvm-2.12.0-52.module+el8+2617+8f1b8f17 For aarch64: # rpm -qp --requires qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.aarch64.rpm /bin/sh edk2-aarch64 For x86_64: # rpm -qp --requires qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64.rpm /bin/sh edk2-ovmf # rpm -ivh /home/qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: edk2-ovmf is needed by qemu-kvm-core-15:2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64 Currently, QE doesn't test aarch64 so setting VERIFIED (In reply to Chao Yang from comment #15) > For aarch64: > > # rpm -qp --requires > qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.aarch64.rpm > /bin/sh > edk2-aarch64 > > > For x86_64: > > # rpm -qp --requires > qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64.rpm > /bin/sh > edk2-ovmf > > # rpm -ivh /home/qemu-kvm-core-2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > edk2-ovmf is needed by > qemu-kvm-core-15:2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64 > dnf module install virt:rhel worked fine which has qemu-kvm-core-15:2.12.0-57.module+el8+2683+02b3b955.x86_64 and edk2-ovmf-20180508gitee3198e672e2-8.el8.noarch installed correctly. > Currently, QE doesn't test aarch64 so setting VERIFIED |
The spec file for qemu-kvm currently contains %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 Requires: seabios-bin >= 1.10.2-1 Requires: sgabios-bin %endif %ifnarch aarch64 s390x Requires: seavgabios-bin >= 1.10.2-1 Requires: ipxe-roms-qemu >= 20170123-1 %endif %ifarch %{power64} Requires: SLOF >= %{SLOF_gittagdate}-1.git%{SLOF_gittagcommit} %endif This ensures SeaBIOS and SLOF are always installed along with QEMU on the respective architectures, which is good; however, the same is not true of OVMF (a fully-supported alternative to SeaBIOS for x86_64 guests) or AAVMF (the only firmware available for aarch64 guests). I have no idea how guest firmware works on s390x, so I won't comment on that. We should introduce additional Requires: lines so that users wont't have to worry about guest firmware at all, regardless of the architecture they're using, and the user experience will be entirely consistent.