Re: [Qemu-ppc] Unable to install CentOS7 ppc64le due to checksum mismatches

[Brian Groose]

I compiled from master and it looks like I am no longer seeing the
problem.  Thanks again!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM Brian Groose <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> That's great, thanks!!
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM Mark Cave-Ayland
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/07/2019 22:27, Brian Groose wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to install CentOS 7 ppc64le using qemu-system-ppc64.  The
> > > installer starts up but it always complains that the checksums on the
> > > rpm repository files are wrong (for example,
> > > /run/install/repo/repodata/34ce....a76b-primary.xml.gz)
> > >
> > > Normally, I'd say this was a bad download, but if I switch to a
> > > terminal in the qemu VM, I can run sha256sum on the same file on disk
> > > and I get the correct hash (in the example above, the hash is embedded
> > > in the file name).  Almost like the installer is somehow getting it
> > > wrong.  I tried several version of the CentOS 7 ISO with the same
> > > results, as well as a netinstall.
> > >
> > > I was able to successfully install SuSE 12 SP0, but SuSE 12 SP1 and
> > > beyond complain about checksum mismatches the same as CentOS 7, and I
> > > can successfully verify the files in the VM have the correct checksum
> > > with sha256sum as well.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions for what I can try here?
> > >
> > > I've tried this on Windows (3.1.50) and OS X (4.0.0) with the same 
> > > results.
> > >
> > > I'm starting the VM like this:
> > > qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-1810.iso -m 4g
> > > -drive file=disk0.qcow2 -cpu power8
> >
> > This is a know bug with 4.0: see 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715017
> > for some discussion and background.
> >
> > The patches to fix this have been merged into git master and so will appear 
> > in the
> > upcoming 4.1 release, and have also been queued in the 4.0 stable branch 
> > ready for
> > 4.0.1.
> >
> >
> > ATB,
> >
> > Mark.