[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#810923: virtinst: virt-install fails to create working ppc64 (& other non-native) VMs

[Robbie Harwood]

Package: virtinst
Version: 1:1.2.1-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When following the normal process for creating a ppc64 VM (e.g.,
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/virt-builder-fedora-21-ppc64-and-ppc64le-images/
), it will fail complaining about vmport.  I believe this is this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259998

Assuming one can get beyond that (e.g., with VNC set), the resulting machine
will fail with no output.  Logs reveal that

2016-01-13 18:49:40.822+0000: starting up libvirt version: 1.3.0, package: 2 (Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:04:12 +0100), qemu version: 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-3), hostname: thriss
LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/root USER=root LOGNAME=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -name rhel6-ppc64 -S -machine pseries-2.5,accel=tcg,usb=off -cpu POWER8 -m 2048 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 98d818e6-b5c5-43b1-8381-da6ca420aec8 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-rhel6-ppc64/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4.0x2 -device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi0,reg=0x2000 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel6-ppc64.img,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=raw -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/home/bos/rharwood/iso/RHEL-6.7-20150702.0-Server-ppc64-dvd1.iso,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw -device scsi-cd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=1,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-1,id=scsi0-0-0-1,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=29,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:3a:c7:37,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device spapr-vty,chardev=charserial0,reg=0x30000000 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -device usb-kbd,id=input1 -device usb-mouse,id=input2 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device VGA,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir1,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir1,id=redir1 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/random -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -msg timestamp=on
char device redirected to /dev/pts/3 (label charserial0)
qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0xfffffffff92169f8

NIP fffffffff92169f8   LR 000000000000631c CTR fffffffff92169f8 XER 0000000000000000 CPU#0
MSR 8000000000000000 HID0 0000000000000000  HF 8000000000000000 idx 1
TB 00000000 07931969 DECR 4287035593
GPR00 000000000000631c 000000000000bba0 0000000000014398 000000000000bd60
GPR04 0000000000000140 0000000000007268 000000000000bc10 000000000000bd61
GPR08 000000000000006c fffffffff9210180 fffffffff92169f8 000000007fbbd590
GPR12 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 000000000000726b 000000000000002d
GPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000030 0000000000000078
GPR20 00000000000073b8 000000000000bf58 0000000000000020 0000000000000020
GPR24 0000000000000004 0000000000000140 0000000000000000 000000000000bd60
GPR28 000000000000bd20 000000000000bc31 0000000000007260 0000000000000000
CR 40000208  [ G  -  -  -  -  E  -  L  ]             RES ffffffffffffffff
FPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
FPSCR 0000000000000000
 SRR0 0000000000000000  SRR1 0000000000000000    PVR 00000000004d0100 VRSAVE 0000000000000000
SPRG0 0000000000000000 SPRG1 0000000000000000  SPRG2 0000000000000000  SPRG3 0000000000000000
SPRG4 0000000000000000 SPRG5 0000000000000000  SPRG6 0000000000000000  SPRG7 0000000000000000
 CFAR 00000000000067e0
 SDR1 00007fbd3f000006   DAR 0000000000000000  DSISR 0000000000000000
2016-01-13 18:49:41.358+0000: shutting down

These happen to be the RHEL logs, but the failure mode is the same for Fedora
as well.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages virtinst depends on:
ii  gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0  0.2.12-2
ii  python-libvirt        1.3.0-1
ii  python-libxml2        2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  python-urlgrabber     3.9.1-4.2
pn  python2.7:any         <none>
pn  python:any            <none>

Versions of packages virtinst recommends:
ii  qemu-utils   1:2.5+dfsg-3
ii  virt-viewer  1.0-1

virtinst suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information