Comment 5 for bug 1674402

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Mikhail S Medvedev (msmedved) wrote :

>I've applied [1] which seems pretty good, but unfortunately, it seems like qemu doesn't like working with ppc64le binaries and fails with an invalid exception [2]
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> This might be worth a bug, Mikhail?

Hmm, maybe. Did you run diskimage-builder inside a ppc64 VM? Because I believe chroot environment does not allow you to easily build an image for a different arch without some extra tinkering. I was not able to do a cross-platform build of ppc from x86 chroot environment. So using the target arch VM is what I was doing.

Also it appears that current diskimage-builder test suite does not cover the partition code. In it's absense I have created https://review.openstack.org/#q,I2b62d6f9888237488f5bcc9cdf2aa86dc40eba95,n,z on top of proposed fix. ppc64 test currently fails with

    exception [Unknown flag [prep] in partitioning for [boot]]