Bug 1440647
| Summary: | /virt/install: aarch64 support | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Beaker | Reporter: | Artem Savkov <asavkov> |
| Component: | tests | Assignee: | Dan Callaghan <dcallagh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Dan Callaghan <dcallagh> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 24 | CC: | dcallagh, jstancek, mjia, rjoost |
| Target Milestone: | 24.3 | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | aarch64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-05-26 07:43:50 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Artem Savkov
2017-04-10 07:47:24 UTC
Artëm, could you give us a quick summary of *why* these changes are needed? I am guessing we take out the console= parameter and add --noautoconsole because the aarch64 guest firmware doesn't have serial console support yet? (Is that really true? Seems like a major deficiency.) What about --nographics? Is that also a missing feature in the aarch64 KVM guests? Is it something that will be added in future, in which case this is just a temporary workaround and we should take it out later? (In reply to Dan Callaghan from comment #1) > Artëm, could you give us a quick summary of *why* these changes are needed? > > I am guessing we take out the console= parameter and add --noautoconsole > because the aarch64 guest firmware doesn't have serial console support yet? > (Is that really true? Seems like a major deficiency.) It does have console support and we do get console output with options set like this. None of aarch64 machines we have in beaker have "console" cmdline parameter set, so I removed default "console=ttyS0" that resulted in no output. > What about --nographics? Is that also a missing feature in the aarch64 KVM > guests? > Is it something that will be added in future, in which case this is just a > temporary workaround and we should take it out later? qemu-kvm on aarch64 does not support default cirrus vga emulation. It does support virtio vga but since we don't use graphics during testing and ppc64 already does this we came to a conclusion that it will be enough to disable graphics for aarch64 altogether. @Dan: Can you please set the flags, so it's included in next beaker release? Any estimate when that will be? I guess we can release this independently of Beaker since it's just a task change. Tagged /distribution/virt/install 4.0-94. /distribution/virt/install 4.0-94 has been released. |