Comment 12 for bug 1712831

I feel a bit like a retry bot - no offense - but you do realized that I posted steps to reproduce on the initial post already right?

Maybe it helps to document the steps to exchange a kernel.
1. you have an image created like
  autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud -a i386 -r artful -s 10G
2. you mount that to deploy a kernel
  sudo qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 ~/work/autopkgtest-artful-i386.img
  sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/test/
  # do your stuff, like wget a kernel to there
  sudo umount /mnt/test
3. you need to install the kernel in a virtual env to get the devices right
  $ kvm -m 512 -hda /home/paelzer/work/autopkgtest-artful-i386.img
  use ubuntu:ubuntu to log in and install via sudo
  then shut the guest down
4. run the test as usual
 $ autopkgtest --apt-upgrade --shell --no-built-binaries openvswitch_2.8.0~git20170809.7aa47a19d-0ubuntu1.dsc -- qemu ~/work/autopkgtest-artful-i386.img

That done show that 4.12 final is just as broken as the others since 4.12