autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud fails on riscv64 due to invoking qemu-system-riscv64 with -m virt acpi=on

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

I tried to run 'autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -v --arch riscv64 --release noble'. But the build does not finish.

QEMU 8.2.1 supports ACPI on riscv64. But our images cannot boot with the available ACPI information.

We must use -m virt,acpi=off.

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

This is the QEMU invocation command that fails:

qemu-system-riscv64 \
-machine virt \
-m 512 \
-smp 1 \
-nographic \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10022-:22 \
-object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \
-device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0,id=rng-device0 \
-monitor unix:/tmp/autopkgtest-qemu.e_5m27zi/monitor,server=on,wait=off \
-virtfs local,id=autopkgtest,path=/tmp/autopkgtest-qemu.e_5m27zi/shared,security_model=none,mount_tag=autopkgtest \
-device virtio-serial \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/autopkgtest-qemu.e_5m27zi/hvc0,server=on,wait=off,id=hvc0 \
-device virtconsole,chardev=hvc0 \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/autopkgtest-qemu.e_5m27zi/hvc1,server=on,wait=off,id=hvc1 \
-device virtconsole,chardev=hvc1 \
-serial unix:/tmp/autopkgtest-qemu.e_5m27zi/ttyS0,server=on,wait=off \
-drive index=0,file=/tmp/autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloudj82p8naj/noble-server-cloudimg-riscv64.img,format=qcow2,if=virtio,discard=unmap \
-drive index=1,file=/tmp/autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloudj82p8naj/autopkgtest.seed,format=raw,if=virtio,discard=unmap,readonly

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

We also need to supply a firmware, e.g. EDK2:

-drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,file=/usr/share/qemu-efi-riscv64/RISCV_VIRT_CODE.fd,readonly=on

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

Merge request in Debian Salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/300

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/300 is merged. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 5.34ubuntu2

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autopkgtest (5.34ubuntu2) noble; urgency=medium

  [ Paride Legovini ]
  * d/t/unshare: skip test (exit 77) if simple unshare command fails
  * gitlab-ci: do not include the salsa pipeline

  [ Florent 'Skia' Jacquet ]
  * tools/a-b-lxd: make sure the reboot happens when needed

 -- Paride Legovini <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:39:55 +0200