Comment 1 for bug 1754015

Hi Junien,

Thanks for the detailed bug report. I'm wondering if ipxe-qemu installed is not getting installed because you're not installing recommended packages. ie. 'apt install --no-install-recommends'. They should get installed by default. Note that qemu-system-arm specifies ipxe-qemu as a 'Recommends' package whereas qemu-system-x86 specifies ipxe-qemu as a 'Depends' package.

For qemu 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.5~cloud0 from xenial-pike, the debian/control file has:

Package: qemu-system
Architecture: amd64 arm arm64 armel armhf hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el s390x sparc sparc64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
 qemu-system-arm,
 qemu-system-mips,
 qemu-system-ppc,
 qemu-system-sparc,
 qemu-system-x86,
 qemu-system-s390x,
 qemu-system-misc

Package: qemu-kvm
Architecture: i386 amd64 x32 armhf armel arm64 powerpc ppc64 ppc64el s390x
Multi-Arch: foreign
Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
Depends:
 ${misc:Depends},
 qemu-system-x86 (= ${binary:Version}) [i386 amd64 x32],
 qemu-system-arm (= ${binary:Version}) [armhf armel arm64],
 qemu-system-ppc (= ${binary:Version}) [powerpc ppc64 ppc64el],
 qemu-system-s390x (= ${binary:Version}) [s390x],
 powerpc-utils [ppc64el],

Package: qemu-system-arm
Architecture: amd64 arm arm64 armel armhf hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el s390x sparc sparc64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, qemu-system-common (>> 2.0.0+dfsg-7~)
Recommends: qemu-utils,
# aarch64 arm uses bootroms
 ipxe-qemu (>= 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-1~),

Please let me know what you find. For now I'm going to mark this
Thanks,
Corey