[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-03-01 Thread bugproxy
** Tags removed: targetmilestone-inin--- ** Tags added: targetmilestone-inin16044 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-16 Thread Manoj Iyer
** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-03 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package slof - 20161019+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 --- slof (20161019+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) zesty; urgency=medium * Fix boot with more than 16 disks (LP: #1734856) - d/p/0001-boot-do-not-concatenate-bootdev.patch - d/p/0002-boot-use-a-temporary-bootdev-buf.patch

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-03 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package slof - 20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 --- slof (20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1) xenial; urgency=medium * Fix boot with more than 16 disks (LP: #1734856) - d/p/0001-boot-do-not-concatenate-bootdev.patch - d/p/0002-boot-use-a-temporary-bootdev-buf.patch

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-03 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Thank you Srikanth (and Team since I saw so many people update the bug). This is already released for Artful, the SRU Team should soon release it for X/Z as well now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-03 Thread Srikanth Aithal
verification done on 1. artful 2. xenial 3. zesty results in comment 32, 45, 46 ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial verification-needed-zesty ** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-xenial verification-done-zesty -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-02 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
It is mostly independent to the kernel, the fix by Nikunj just needs the new Slof to be on the host. Please sync internally if the test is correct as this is the fix that was suggested by you and at least in my tests it worked. Since former verifications were a bit back and forth and this

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package slof - 20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 --- slof (20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) artful; urgency=medium * Fix boot with more than 16 disks (LP: #1734856) - d/p/0001-boot-do-not-concatenate-bootdev.patch - d/p/0002-boot-use-a-temporary-bootdev-buf.patch

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-02 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Ok, so are all three artful, xenial and zesty done already or are we waiting on xenial and zesty to complete? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2018-01-01 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Thanks for sorting out the Artful test already bssrikanth. To be clear (the comments by kalshett are unclear to me at least. You need to test Xenial/Zesty/Artful HOSTS. The fix is in the slof package that is installed in the KVM host. It actually doesn't even matter which level of guest you

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-25 Thread Kalpana S Shetty
Applied artful proposed fixes and could not able to see the reported issue fixed. Help needed to apply artful-proposed fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-25 Thread Kalpana S Shetty
Artful validation: --- I could able to recreate the issue; Initially added upto 32 boot order disks apart from primary disk(boot order 1), and not able to recreate it. However with one more disks

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-25 Thread bugproxy
** Tags removed: verification-needed-xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue) To manage notifications about

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-20 Thread Brian Murray
Hello bugproxy, or anyone else affected, Accepted slof into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slof/20170724+dfsg- 1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-19 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Tests good - MPs open for packaging review -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue) To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-18 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
MPs for the packaging change in X/Z/A up for review and linked in the bug. ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Artful) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => In

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-18 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Doing another bigger check set on Xenial and then opening up the MPs for review. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-18 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/slof/+git/slof/+merge/335317 ** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/slof/+git/slof/+merge/335318 ** Merge proposal linked:

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-18 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package slof - 20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu1 --- slof (20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium * Fix boot with more than 16 disks (LP: #1734856) - d/p/0001-boot-do-not-concatenate-bootdev.patch - d/p/0002-boot-use-a-temporary-bootdev-buf.patch --

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-18 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
I saw the new upstream release, over the next time this will be picked up by Debian and we make it a sync again then. For now I pick the fix as tested from the ppa into Bionic. Once that migrated I'll look at the SRUs into X-A. ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Incomplete => Fix

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-15 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
On my test environment with the extracted slof.bin from the DEB package, I do not see the issue. ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -nodefaults -serial stdio -monitor pty -m 2G -device virtio-scsi-pci`for ((i=2;i<=30;i++)) ; do echo -n " -drive

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-15 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
My former tests focussed on the testcase. I deployed a fresh power8 system and ran some more tests on the proposed change but found no issues - that said going on. That said I pushed an MP for review of the packaging changes. @Nikunj / IBM - waiting on your check of the PPA as well if you can

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Artful) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title:

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Zesty) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title:

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title:

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Thanks for the info Nikunj. That means we can likely soon pick it up as a sync from Debian again. But for now can fix it by picking your changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
@paelzer Had a discussion with Alexey, he has created a release label https://github.com/aik/SLOF/commit/fa981320a1e0968d6fc1b8de319723ff8212b337 Waiting for the mirror to happen on https://git.qemu.org/?p=SLOF.git;a=commit;h=HEAD Once that happens, he will send a slof update patch to the qemu

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-14 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Merge proposal linked: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/slof/+git/slof/+merge/335202 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * Booting a KVM guest with many disks considered as potential boot device +fails on ppc64le + + * In detail this was an overflow, so now the processing of devices is +changed to use dynamic allocation which works with higher numbers of +

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
It was still working with 20 disks and boot index, but 48 made it. Thanks Nikunj for the bood index hint. Overall testcase: # Prep a guest $ uvt-simplestreams-libvirt --verbose sync --source http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily arch=ppc64el label=daily release=bionic $ uvt-kvm create

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
@paelzer you need to have boot order in each of these disk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue) To manage

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Tried the base 2 + 2x20 = 42 disks. Still working for me as-is. To summarize what I wait on: 1. better steps to reproduce - if possible slight modification to my suggested workflow and even more so if possible without needing double digit amount of real disks 2. please test/verify the ppa

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
I tried to verify the case and fix myself which is a prereq for good steps to reproduce for the SRU anyway. I came up with test steps based on what was initially reported. $ uvt-simplestreams-libvirt --verbose sync --source http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily arch=ppc64el label=daily

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Hi, I don't want to wait too long, so while waiting for an answer I made a ppa available that should be tested to confirm this fix is good (for bionic). Please test on Bionic from ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3079 I'll mark the bug incomplete to clearly

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
@Nikunj - do you happen to know if Alexey is planning an official release soon that would include this fix? Note: this is the first Delta to take, but I look into it as it is critical. We want to get back to have upstream release a version, debian pick it up and we become a sync again in

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-13 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Thanks for the ping Nikunj! ** Changed in: slof (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Tags added: slof-18.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-12-04 Thread Andrew Cloke
Marking as "incomplete" until patch lands upstream. ** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-11-29 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: slof Status: Unknown => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734856 Title: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue) To manage notifications

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-11-29 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Also linked up the GH issue and the SLOF project in general. We should get auto-updates once resolved, but to be sure @nikunj please feel free to ping here once the discussion on the patch concludes and is committed upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-11-29 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Thanks for the bug, I see the patch is under active discussion atm. Lets take a look to integrate once that discussion concludes. Since it is packaged in slof I assigned that as the target and opened up per release tasks. ** Package changed: qemu (Ubuntu) => slof (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: slof

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-11-28 Thread Manoj Iyer
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage) => David Britton (davidpbritton) ** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Tags added: triage-g -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1734856] Re: Can't boot VM with more than 16 disks (slof buffer issue)

2017-11-28 Thread Frank Heimes
** Also affects: ubuntu-power-systems Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: ubuntu-power-systems Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Server Team (canonical-server) -- You received this bug