Re: [libvirt-users] MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

2017-03-15 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 03/14/2017 02:18 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: You keep referring to ppc instead of ppc64, so I'm not sure you're trying exactly the same thing, but you can create a ppc64 guest with recent software quite easily by using virt-builder: Perfect! I was unaware that this existed. Thank you! --

Re: [libvirt-users] MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

2017-03-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 09:18 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more > > widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work reliably. >  > I did try that, but I wasn't able to get past errors about the > machine type not

Re: [libvirt-users] MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

2017-03-14 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 03/14/2017 05:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work reliably. I did try that, but I wasn't able to get past errors about the machine type not supporting IDE

Re: [libvirt-users] MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

2017-03-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I am trying to create a QEMU MIPS guest, so that I can test some code > for big-endian safety. You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work

[libvirt-users] MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

2017-03-13 Thread Ian Pilcher
I am trying to create a QEMU MIPS guest, so that I can test some code for big-endian safety. Every attempt to create a MIPS guest is giving me an error: Unable to complete install: 'XML error: No PCI buses available' It seems like this is a known issue.