KVM module handling different per Architecture - ppc64el
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Tim Gardner | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Tim Gardner |
Bug Description
Hi,
the Intel KVM module is build as a modules - the core being KVM and then the chip vendor specific kvm-intel / kvm-svm.
On ppc64el the situation is similar there is kvm.ko and then kvm-pr and kvm-hv for problem state and hardware virtualization.
Currently using kvm users can get:
modprobe: FATAL: Module kvm-hv not found ...
But when evaluating if I should add a new recommends to qemu-kvm I realized this module to kernel package mismatch.
This is caused by one difference, on intel all is in one package:
dpkg -S /lib/modules/
linux-image-
linux-image-
linux-image-
But on ppc64el it is not:
$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/
linux-image-
linux-image-
linux-image-
Those should be in just one of these packages.
At a discussion on #stable-kernel it was suggested that it might just have been missed so far:
<infinity> smb: I doubt it was a conscious move, but rather that kvm.ko is in the module include list (as inherited from x86 builds), while the ppc-specific modules are not.
I don't know, but I wanted to open the bug to get it resolved - and if possible all in the base image.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: bot-stop-nagging kernel-da-key |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Zesty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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