[fedora-arm] No virtualisation in Fedora 21 on Mustang

[Paul Whalen]

----- Original Message -----
> In case you do not know yet: there is no virtualisation support
> in Fedora 21 on APM Mustang. Looks like one of 3.18-rc commits
> went into 3.17/stable tree and disabled it for us.
> 
> Added into to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165290
> 
> 
> [root at pinkiepie virt]# LC_ALL=C virsh create hrw-f21.xml
> error: Failed to create domain from hrw-f21.xml
> error: unsupported configuration: Domain requires KVM, but it is not
> available. Check that virtualisation is enabled in the host BIOS, and host
> configuration is setup to load the kvm modules.
> 
> [root at pinkiepie virt]# dmesg|grep -i kvm
> [    0.303959] kvm [1]: GICV size 0x2000 not a multiple of page size 0x10000
> [    0.303965] kvm [1]: error: no compatible GIC info found
> [    0.304070] kvm [1]: error initializing Hyp mode: -6
> [root at pinkiepie virt]# uname -a
> Linux pinkiepie 3.17.4-301.fc21.aarch64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 30 20:41:43 UTC 2014
> aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Fixed in kernel-3.17.4-302.fc21, which has been built on primary but not yet 
for aarch64. For testing a scratch build can be found here:

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2816858

If you do test, please add karma[1] to help move it along.


Regards,
Paul

[1] - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.17.4-302.fc21

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