------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-09-25 13:55 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #27)
> The test package is for Xenial, not for Trusty. Does that installation
> failure affect Xenial also?
my bad, mistaken it for Trusty.
Xenial installation has no issues, and tested the qemu package with below level
qemu:
ri qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.32~test1 ppc64el QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc)
ii qemu-kvm 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.32~test1 ppc64el QEMU Full virtualization
------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-09-25 13:55 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #27)
> The test package is for Xenial, not for Trusty. Does that installation
> failure affect Xenial also?
my bad, mistaken it for Trusty.
Xenial installation has no issues, and tested the qemu package with below level
HW: Power8 devicetree/ base/ibm, opal/fw- features hints-honored/ enabled cache-disabled/ enabled flush-ori30, 30,0/enabled barrier- ori31,31, 0/enabled flush-msr- hv-1-to- 0/enabled flush-msr- pr-0-to- 1/enabled barrier- for-bound- checks/ enabled policy- favor-security/ enabled mode/enabled
FW: latest contains spectre/meltdown fixes(FW860.60 (SV860_174) (b))
# cd /sys/firmware/
# ls -1 */enabled
fw-branch-
fw-count-
inst-l1d-
inst-spec-
needs-l1d-
needs-l1d-
needs-spec-
speculation-
tm-suspend-
Host Kernel: 4.15.0-34-generic
qemu: 5ubuntu10. 32~test1 ppc64el QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc) 5ubuntu10. 32~test1 ppc64el QEMU Full virtualization
ri qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-
ii qemu-kvm 1:2.5+dfsg-
guest: ubuntu18. 10(4.17. 0-9-generic)
# kvm -M pseries, cap-sbbc= workaround, cap-cfpc= workaround -smp 4 -m 8192 -serial mon:stdio -enable-kvm -vga none -nographic ~/ubuntu1810- ppc64le. qcow2
qemu-system-ppc64: Requested safe cache capability level not supported by kvm, try cap-cfpc=broken
#
looks like some patches missing backport?
probably below patch?, not sure though
https:/ /github. com/qemu/ qemu/commit/ b2540203bdf4a39 0c3489146eae82c e237303653# diff-b0796c6a57 7709f249c7c5d96 b9ea049
@Suraj,
Could you pls help here, thanks in advance.
Regards,
-Satheesh.