Re: ppc64le Rawhide VM issues

[Steven Munroe]

>  My qemu boot command is currently:
>  qemu-system-ppc64 -m 2048 -smp 2 -machine pseries -cpu power9 -hda <qcow2 
image
from download server> -cdrom <cloud-init image>

Looks like you are running an LE image in the BE machine:

try qemu-system-ppc64le

ppc64le Rawhide VM issues

[Greg Hellings]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:42 PM Steven Munroe <munroesj52(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  > My qemu boot command is currently:
>  > qemu-system-ppc64 -m 2048 -smp 2 -machine pseries -cpu power9 -hda
>  <qcow2 image from download server> -cdrom <cloud-init image>
>
>  Looks like you are running an LE image in the BE machine:
>
>  try qemu-system-ppc64le
>  
I can't find that executable anywhere. However, switching from power9 to
power8 appears to have eliminated the issues.

--Greg

ppc64le Rawhide VM issues

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 11:46 -0500, Greg Hellings wrote:
>  On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:42 PM Steven Munroe
> <munroesj52(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > > My qemu boot command is currently:
>  > > qemu-system-ppc64 -m 2048 -smp 2 -machine pseries -cpu power9 -hda
>  > <qcow2 image from download server> -cdrom <cloud-init image>
>  > 
>  > Looks like you are running an LE image in the BE machine:
>  > 
>  > try qemu-system-ppc64le
>  > 
>  
>  I can't find that executable anywhere. However, switching from power9 to
>  power8 appears to have eliminated the issues. 
We stopped supporting big-endian ppc64 a few releases back, so probably
at that point the big-endian qemu executable was dropped and the
little-endian one was given the 'ppc64' name.
-- 
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ppc64le Rawhide VM issues

[Dan Horák]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:03:35 -0700
Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 11:46 -0500, Greg Hellings wrote:
>  > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:42 PM Steven Munroe
>  > <munroesj52(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > 
>  > > > My qemu boot command is currently:
>  > > > qemu-system-ppc64 -m 2048 -smp 2 -machine pseries -cpu power9
>  > > > -hda
>  > > <qcow2 image from download server> -cdrom <cloud-init image>
>  > > 
>  > > Looks like you are running an LE image in the BE machine:
>  > > 
>  > > try qemu-system-ppc64le
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > I can't find that executable anywhere. However, switching from
>  > power9 to power8 appears to have eliminated the issues.
>  
>  We stopped supporting big-endian ppc64 a few releases back, so
>  probably at that point the big-endian qemu executable was dropped and
>  the little-endian one was given the 'ppc64' name. 
there is a single qemu for both ppc64 and ppc64le guests

regarding the original issue, I think it might be a deficiency in the
full emulation of power9 cpus in qemu


		Dan