Public bug reported:

---Problem Description---
VM fails to start when vcpu placement='auto'
 
---uname output---
Linux ltc-test-ci1 4.4.0-9134-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 18 05:21:43 UTC 
2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
 
Machine Type = power 8 ppc64le 
  
---Steps to Reproduce---

1. Define the VM with xml attached
virsh define vm.xml
2. Start the VM
virsh start virt-tests-vm1
error: Failed to start domain virt-tests-vm1
error: unsupported configuration: numad is not available on this host

 
Userspace tool common name: ii  libvirt-bin                          
2.1.0-1ubuntu3                      ppc64el      programs for the libvirt 
library 
 
The userspace tool has the following bit modes: both 

Userspace rpm: ii  libvirt-bin                          2.1.0-1ubuntu3
ppc64el      programs for the libvirt library


ii  numad                                0.5+20150602-4                      
ppc64el      User-level daemon that monitors NUMA topology and usage

attached debug log by enabling flag, export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1

Not much info on qemu vm log
cat libvirt/qemu/virt-tests-vm1.log
2016-08-29 16:09:19.092+0000: shutting down
2016-08-29 16:16:08.378+0000: shutting down
2016-08-29 16:16:37.811+0000: shutting down
2016-08-29 16:16:45.579+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:35:21.199+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:40:28.999+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:41:15.155+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:44:04.427+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:44:16.099+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:49:12.327+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:53:19.455+0000: shutting down
2016-08-30 05:53:56.171+0000: shutting down


service numad status
? numad.service - numad - The NUMA daemon that manages application locality.
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/numad.service; enabled; vendor preset: 
enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-08-22 04:12:30 CDT; 1 weeks 0 days 
ago
     Docs: man:numad
 Main PID: 3563 (numad)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 12288)
   Memory: 1.5M
      CPU: 6min 43.046s
   CGroup: /system.slice/numad.service
           ??3563 /usr/bin/numad -i 15

Aug 22 04:12:29 ltc-test-ci1 systemd[1]: Starting numad - The NUMA daemon that 
manages application locality....
Aug 22 04:12:30 ltc-test-ci1 systemd[1]: Started numad - The NUMA daemon that 
manages application locality..

looks more like a configuration issue, suspecting that libvirt package
is configured without numa support

Can Canonical confirm if the libvirt package provides numa support?

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
         Status: New


** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-145430 severity-high 
targetmilestone-inin1610

** Tags added: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-145430 severity-high
targetmilestone-inin1610

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