Bug 728224 - configure can't find qemu on PPC
Summary: configure can't find qemu on PPC
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libgssapi
Version: 16
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F16NTHppc
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-04 12:53 UTC by Karsten Hopp
Modified: 2013-02-13 21:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 21:37:54 UTC
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Description Karsten Hopp 2011-08-04 12:53:43 UTC
Description of problem:
checking for qemu-kvm... no
checking for qemu-system-ppc... no
checking for qemu... no
configure: error: qemu must be installed

root.log shows that 
qemu-img-0.15.0-0.2.20110718525e3df.fc16                                
qemu-kvm-0.15.0-0.2.20110718525e3df.fc16 got installed into the buildroot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.12.1-4.fc16

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ppc-koji build --scratch f16 libguestfs-1.12.1-4.fc16.src.rpm
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
https://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=267574

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-08-04 13:10:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> checking for qemu-kvm... no
> checking for qemu-system-ppc... no
> checking for qemu... no
> configure: error: qemu must be installed
> 
> root.log shows that 
> qemu-img-0.15.0-0.2.20110718525e3df.fc16                                
> qemu-kvm-0.15.0-0.2.20110718525e3df.fc16 got installed into the buildroot.
> 
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> libguestfs-1.12.1-4.fc16
> 
> How reproducible:
> always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. ppc-koji build --scratch f16 libguestfs-1.12.1-4.fc16.src.rpm
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual results:
> https://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=267574

This link gives me:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org.
SSL peer was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of security parameters.
(Error code: ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert)

(This is with Firefox 5.0)

In any case, qemu 0.15 is seriously broken on x86-64, and
might well also be broken on ppc.  I don't have access to
any ppc machines, so I have some questions instead:

Does qemu-kvm contain a binary?  What is it called?

Does /usr/bin/<name_of_binary> -help work?

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2011-08-04 16:57:58 UTC
try http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=267574 , that should work.

qemu-kvm contains no files, that's similar to the other archs, p.e.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2621155

qemu-img contains two binaries and a man page, both binaries show some usage output with the parameter --help

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-08-04 17:07:53 UTC
So there's no KVM.  We need to change the package
to conditionally depend on QEMU instead of KVM,
something like:

%ifarch %{ix86} x86_64
BuildRequires: qemu-kvm >= 0.10-7
%else
BuildRequires: qemu-system-%{_build_arch}
%endif

and later, remove the fallback to qemu (which is
wrong):

./configure
[...]
--with-qemu="qemu-kvm qemu-system-%{_build_arch}"
[...]

Obviously not tested, but something along
those lines should work ...

I think previously we were hampered by the fact
that qemu-system-ppc wouldn't actually boot our
own kernel, so nothing worked at all.  Hopefully
this is fixed in PPC, but it might require further
changes to libguestfs or fixes to QEMU.

Comment 4 Brent Baude 2012-01-13 19:21:48 UTC
Ben,

Can you comment here?

Comment 5 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2012-01-13 20:57:01 UTC
I don't know about what qemu is packaged with fedora, but with the work happening on KVM, if you get our up to date qemu (or even the public one but that won't support everything) things should work.

However, it will be qemu-system-ppc64 (note the 64 at the end) and you'll have to start it with -M pseries to be able to boot your kernel I suspect (the G5 machine emulation is still the default and is quite flawky).

Cheers,
Ben.

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