Error: Cirrus VGA not available on ppc64el

[Nobuto Murata]

I got "Error: Cirrus VGA not available" on ppc64el host.

[/var/log/libvirt/qemu/maas.log]
2016-04-12 14:35:52.084+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.2.16, package: 1.2.16-2ubuntu11.15.10.4~cloud0, qemu version: 2.3.0 (Debian 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2~cloud0)
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm -name maas -S -machine pseries-2.3,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 8192 -realtime mlock=off -s
mp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid ed5aa1be-b288-7006-fd2b-74dd309247fa -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/maas.monitor,server,nowait -m
on chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device pci-ohci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/maas-root.img,if=none,
id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/maas-
seed.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -netdev tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0,vhost=on
,vhostfd=24 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f1:3c:ba,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1 -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet1,vhost=on,vhostfd=26 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id
=net1,mac=52:54:00:4a:fe:6a,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -netdev tap,fd=27,id=hostnet2,vhost=on,vhostfd=28 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet2,id=net2,mac=52:54:00:7f:df:3a,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chard
ev pty,id=charserial0 -device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,reg=0x30000000 -device usb-kbd,id=input0 -device usb-mouse,id=input1 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=bal
loon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -msg timestamp=on
char device redirected to /dev/pts/6 (label charserial0)
WARNING: aio=native was specified for '/var/lib/libvirt/images/maas-root.img', but it requires cache.direct=on, which was not specified. Falling back to aio=threads.
         This will become an error condition in future QEMU versions.
WARNING: aio=native was specified for '/var/lib/libvirt/images/maas-seed.img', but it requires cache.direct=on, which was not specified. Falling back to aio=threads.
         This will become an error condition in future QEMU versions.
Error: Cirrus VGA not available

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Ah, this may be the case: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-deployers/maas-deployer/next/revision/65

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Ok, confirmed that video driver can be changed like:
====
        memory: 8192
        vcpus: 2
        arch: ppc64
        video: vga
        pool: default
        disk_size: 128G
====