[FFE] New package: ipxe-precise

[Serge Hallyn]

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Impact: qemu VMs cannot be migrated from 12.04->14.04 hosts
Test Case: XXX NOTE XXX This requires the fix for bug 1374612 as well
 migrate a vm from p->t host, using disk on a NFS share. On the 14.04 host, use
 kvm -M pc-1.0-precise [...] -incoming tcp:0.0.0.0:5555
and on the 12.04 host use
 kvm -M pc-1.0 [...] -monitor stdio
then on the monitor type
 migrate tcp:0.0.0.0:5555

Regression Potential: This only introduces 4 new pxe roms with unique new names, so cannot regress existing installations or VMs.
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Bug 1291321 shows that qemu VMs cannot be migrated from a host running 12.04 to a host running 14.04.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QemuPTMigration explains the proposed solution. A part of this solution requires pxe roms built from the precise ipxe sources. Such a package is built for T and U in ppa:serge-hallyn/qemu-migration2. It builds fine and only installs 5 new romfile under /usr/share/qemu.

(The source package is called ipxe-precise, the binary package kvm-ipxe-precise.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Install log:

ubuntu@migrate-u:~$ sudo apt-get install kvm-ipxe-precise
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kvm-ipxe-precise
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
Need to get 250 kB of archives.
After this operation, 364 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/serge-hallyn/qemu-migration2/ubuntu/ utopic/main kvm-ipxe-precise all 1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.10.1~ppa1 [250 kB]
Fetched 250 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package kvm-ipxe-precise.
(Reading database ... 51978 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../kvm-ipxe-precise_1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.10.1~ppa1_all.deb ...
Unpacking kvm-ipxe-precise (1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.10.1~ppa1) ...

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Build log is at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/185695244/buildlog_ubuntu-utopic-i386.ipxe-precise_1.0.0%2Bgit-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.10.1%7Eppa1_UPLOADING.txt.gz

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

We've discussed this in #ubuntu-release and decided to not support the pc-1.0-precise machine type after 14.04. Therefore the utopic (FFE) bug is wontfix, and we will only seek SRU for 14.04.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Hello Serge, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ipxe-precise into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipxe-precise/1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

thanks, with trusty-proposed in sources.list I'm able to migrate a libvirt-qemu vm from precise to trusty.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ipxe-precise has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ipxe-precise - 1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.04.1

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ipxe-precise (1.0.0+git-3.55f6c88-0ubuntu1.14.04.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * First submission of ipxe-precise package (LP: #1374617)
    - rename source to ipxe-precise
    - rename binary to ipxe-kvm-precise
    - drop other binary packages.
    - add-isolinux-bin-path - Accomodate isolinux's new install path in
      utopic (not needed in trusty, but added in case toolchain updates
      through SRU or for ppa builds)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:15:18 -0500