Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 08/13] pseries: Update SLOF for NVRAM support

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 09:27:54PM -0200, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> Em 04/12/2012 20:58, "David Gibson" <address@hidden> escreveu:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:20:03AM -0200, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:42 AM, David Gibson
> > > <address@hidden>wrote:
> > >
> > > > Now that we have implemented PAPR compatible NVRAM interfaces in
> qemu, this
> > > > updates the SLOF firmware to actually initialize and use the NVRAM as
> a
> > > > PAPR guest firmware is expected to do.
> > > >
> > > > This SLOF update also includes an ugly but useful workaround for a
> bug in
> > > > the SLES11 installer which caused it to fail under KVM.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I had a problem when installing SLES, when the installer et at 23%, a
> get:
> > >
> > > Installation of package ./suse/ppc64/vim-base-7.2-8.15.2.ppc64.rpm
> failed.
> > > Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error:
> > > %post(vim-base-7.2-8.15.2.ppc64.rpm)
> > >
> > > Is this the same problem?
> >
> > No, I don't think so.  The NVRAM failure, I believe happens at the end
> > when it's doing the yaboot setup.  Although, I haven't met it myself,
> > so I'm not certain.
> 
> Have you succeed installing any SLES on QEMU pSeries? This is the first
> system I'm trying to install in an lpar. The guests I have I've installed
> in a power machine and then use the roots.

I haven't personally tried installing SLES, only Fedora and Debian
(and not very recently for those).  Some others in IBM have tried
installing SLES - it used to fail because of this bug and another, I'm
not sure if they've had a chance to try again since this fix.

Failing suddenly in the post script for vim-base seems a really
unlikely problem to be caused by qemu/host bugs, though anything's
possible.  First thing I'd try is to triple-check your install media.

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