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Junien F (axino) wrote : nova-compute-kvm does not pull ipxe-qemu on non-amd64 archs

Hi,

If you deploy a nova-compute unit on arm64 with openstack-origin='cloud:xenial-pike', ipxe-qemu does not get pulled, so nova fails to create instances because :

2018-03-06 14:58:59.608 9770 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 50a8ca28-d43c-4c36-8354-edea0138e7f1] if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self)
2018-03-06 14:58:59.608 9770 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 50a8ca28-d43c-4c36-8354-edea0138e7f1] libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2018-03-06T14:58:58.689865Z qemu-system-aarch64: -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=fa:16:3e:12:80:f6,bus=pci.1,addr=0x0: failed to find romfile "efi-virtio.rom"

(and efi-virtio.rom comes from ipxe-qemu)

This is because of the Depends change on nova-compute-kvm :

cloud-archive nova-compute-kvm has :
Depends: nova-compute-libvirt (= 2:16.0.3-0ubuntu1~cloud0), qemu-kvm | qemu-system (>= 1.3.0) | kvm

regular nova-compute-kvm has :
Depends: nova-compute-libvirt (= 2:13.1.4-0ubuntu4.2), qemu-system (>= 1.3.0) | kvm

and qemu-kvm only pulls qemu-system-arm, whereas qemu-system brings in all architectures, including qemu-system-x86, which pulls in ipxe-qemu.

I guess one fix is to make qemu-system-arm64 depend on ipxe-qemu

Thanks