Comment 12 for bug 1709877

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-01-02 05:07 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #22)
> Hi Satheera,
> since this was waiting for verification so long the version number used in
> the ppa was consumed by another (unrelated) update. I think there is no
> reason to drive all of the rebuild just for this as there is an easier way
> to do the testing against the version in the ppa as-is.
>
> You will need to force the install of the version from the ppa being
> 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
> Fortunately I see in your report above that the newer libvirt-bin
> 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15 was in use.
> So if after adding the ppa you could not just normally apt update&upgrade
> but then force the version like:
> $ apt install libvirt-bin=1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
> libvirt0=1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
>
> This would allow you to check from the ppa without any collision with this
> or other updates.
This helped to get the right package installed, though am not seeing the issue reported, now I am hitting at a different hotplug unsupported issue.

# virsh setvcpus virt-tests-vm1 6 --live
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'cpu-add': Not supported---------???

# dpkg -l|grep libvirt
ii libvirt-bin 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1 ppc64el programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt0:ppc64el 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1 ppc64el library for interfacing with different virtualization systems

package install logs:

# apt install libvirt-bin=1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1 libvirt0=1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
radvd
Recommended packages:
dmidecode
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libvirt-bin libvirt0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,916 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/2959/ubuntu xenial/main ppc64el libvirt-bin ppc64el 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1 [1,945 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/2959/ubuntu xenial/main ppc64el libvirt0 ppc64el 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1 [971 kB]
Fetched 2,916 kB in 4s (695 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: downgrading libvirt-bin from 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15 to 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
(Reading database ... 93134 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-bin_1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1_ppc64el.deb ...
Unpacking libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1) over (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15) ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading libvirt0:ppc64el from 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15 to 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1
Preparing to unpack .../libvirt0_1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1_ppc64el.deb ...
Unpacking libvirt0:ppc64el (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1) over (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Setting up libvirt0:ppc64el (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1) ...
Setting up libvirt-bin (1.3.1-1ubuntu10.15~ppa1) ...
Setting up libvirt-bin dnsmasq configuration.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Regards,
-Satheesh