jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova does not create cdrom device on vsphere

[Jim W]

[Impact]

 * Ubuntu jammy OVA images will not have a CD-ROM drive by default when imported by vmware

[Test Plan]

* having the free vmware-player (or vsphere)

* file: import the ova

* open settings and check for the presence of the CD-ROM drive

[Where problems could occur]

 * The change is limited only to the OVA template, so other image generation should not be affected

 * This is a revert to a previous bus mapping, prior to adding the serial port. From this bug, getting the bus mapping wrong will have vmware to keep discarding that config.

* virtualbox doesn't appear to use that setting. There is a small risk that another hypervisor not mentioned here loses cdrom in the same way if it relies on the cdrom being only on a SCSI bus.

[Original description]

jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova does not create cdrom device when deploying on vsphere 7.

VMware vsphere injects properties like user-data or ssh keys to the VM by means of an iso image mounted on the first CDROM device at boot.

jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova apparently does not include a cdrom in the OVF spec. In order to use the .ova image, a cdrom device has to be added before boot.

Prior versions of ubuntu server (such as focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova) included the cdrom device in the OVF spec. So this is a change from prior practice. Wondering if cdrom could be included again.

[John Chittum (jchittum)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. for comparison:

definition for jammy:

https://git.launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs/tree/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/ovf/ubuntu-ova-v1-vmdk.tmpl

with the cdrom passthrough item:

      <Item ovf:required="false">
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
        <rasd:ElementName>CD-ROM 1</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>9</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>3</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.cdrom.remotepassthrough</rasd:ResourceSubType>
        <rasd:ResourceType>15</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.exclusive" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>

definition for focal:

https://git.launchpad.net/livecd-rootfs/tree/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/ovf/ubuntu-ova-v1-vmdk.tmpl?h=ubuntu/focal

and cdrom passthrough:

      <Item ovf:required="false">
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
        <rasd:ElementName>CD-ROM 1</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>8</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.cdrom.remotepassthrough</rasd:ResourceSubType>
        <rasd:ResourceType>15</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.exclusive" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>

I think the issue may be the rasd:Parent. It's set to 3 on Jammy, which lines up with the SCSI controller, not the IDE controller. We'll check that assumption and start working on it.

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

Sponsored for kinetic and Jammy

* kinetic [devel] upload will go over the automatic workflow. No approval post my upload is needed.
* Jammy [stable] upload would require SRU verification team approval.

The Jammy upload can be seen here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=livecd-rootfs

- Eric

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.766

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livecd-rootfs (2.766) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/ovf/ubuntu-ova-v1-vmdk.tmpl:
    Revert OVF cd-rom controller to be IDE for VMWare (LP: #1970795)

 -- Simon Poirier <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:11:30 -0400

[Simon Poirier (simpoir)]

I verified livecd-rootfs - 2.766 on kinetic

I generated an image (https://simpoir.com/shared/livecd.ubuntu-cpc.ova)
and testing it against a clean virtual environment (https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/bw5wxYrYPJ/)

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Jim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted livecd-rootfs into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/2.764.1 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 on 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Jim W (jwitte)]

tested the image generated by Simon Poirier against VMWare Workstation 16.2.3 build-19376536. Yes, the resulting VM now includes a CDROM. Appears to be fixed for vmware.

[Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh)]

Huh, this was never pushed to git, thereby disrupting everyone's workflow. Please always create MPs and push to git - the sponsoree and the sponsorer.

[Simon Poirier (simpoir)]

Verified livecd-rootfs - 2.764.1 from jammy-proposed

Again, here's a link to the generated image (https://simpoir.com/shared/livecd.ubuntu-cpc.jammy.ova) which I also tested against the same clean virtual environment (https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/bw5wxYrYPJ/)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.764.1

---------------
livecd-rootfs (2.764.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/base/ovf/ubuntu-ova-v1-vmdk.tmpl:
    Revert OVF cd-rom controller to be IDE for VMWare (LP: #1970795)

 -- Simon Poirier <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:34:03 -0400

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for livecd-rootfs has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.