Hi Rich

I'm noe getting the below logs after running libguestfs-test-tool..

SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
SELinux: sh: getenforce: command not found
guestfs_get_append: (null)
guestfs_get_autosync: 1
guestfs_get_backend: direct
guestfs_get_backend_settings: []
guestfs_get_cachedir: /var/tmp
guestfs_get_direct: 0
guestfs_get_hv: /usr/bin/kvm
guestfs_get_memsize: 768
guestfs_get_network: 0
guestfs_get_path: /usr/local/lib/guestfs
guestfs_get_pgroup: 0
guestfs_get_program: libguestfs-test-tool
guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1
guestfs_get_selinux: 0
guestfs_get_smp: 1
guestfs_get_tmpdir: /tmp
guestfs_get_trace: 0
guestfs_get_verbose: 1
host_cpu: powerpc64
Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds.
libguestfs: launch: program=libguestfs-test-tool
libguestfs: launch: version=1.26.1
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: unix
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: uml
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: direct
libguestfs: launch: backend=direct
libguestfs: launch: tmpdir=/tmp/libguestfskd0ua4
libguestfs: launch: umask=0002
libguestfs: launch: euid=1000
libguestfs: [00000ms] begin building supermin appliance
libguestfs: [00000ms] run supermin
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/supermin
libguestfs: command: run: \ --build
libguestfs: command: run: \ --verbose
libguestfs: command: run: \ --if-newer
libguestfs: command: run: \ --lock /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/lock
libguestfs: command: run: \ --copy-kernel
libguestfs: command: run: \ -f ext2
libguestfs: command: run: \ --host-cpu powerpc64
libguestfs: command: run: \ /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
libguestfs: command: run: \ -o /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d
supermin: version: 5.1.8
supermin: package handler: debian/dpkg
supermin: acquiring lock on /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/lock
supermin: if-newer: output does not need rebuilding
libguestfs: [00014ms] finished building supermin appliance
libguestfs: [00014ms] begin testing qemu features
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/kvm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -display none
libguestfs: command: run: \ -help
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/kvm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -display none
libguestfs: command: run: \ -version
libguestfs: qemu version 2.0
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/kvm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -display none
libguestfs: command: run: \ -machine accel=kvm:tcg
libguestfs: command: run: \ -device ?
libguestfs: [00377ms] finished testing qemu features
[00378ms] /usr/bin/kvm \
    -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \
    -nodefconfig \
    -enable-fips \
    -nodefaults \
    -display none \
    -M pseries \
    -machine accel=kvm:tcg \
    -m 768 \
    -no-reboot \
    -rtc driftfix=slew \
    -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard \
    -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d/kernel \
    -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d/initrd \
    -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
    -drive file=/tmp/libguestfskd0ua4/scratch.1,cache=unsafe,format=raw,id=hd0,if=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0 \
    -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d/root,snapshot=on,id=appliance,cache=unsafe,if=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=appliance \
    -device virtio-serial-pci \
    -serial stdio \
    -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfskd0ua4/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \
    -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \
    -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sdb selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm'
kvm: -M pseries: Unsupported machine type
Use -machine help to list supported machines!
libguestfs: error: guestfs_launch failed, see earlier error messages
libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
libguestfs: command: run: rm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfskd0ua4

The output of kvm machine help is as follows...


 kvm -machine help
Supported machines are:
taihu                taihu
mac99                Mac99 based PowerMAC
prep                 PowerPC PREP platform
g3beige              Heathrow based PowerMAC (default)
bamboo               bamboo
mpc8544ds            mpc8544ds
ppce500              generic paravirt e500 platform
virtex-ml507         Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design
none                 empty machine
ref405ep             ref405ep


Can you help regarding this.

Thanks


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:12 PM, abhishek jain <ashujain9727@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rich

I'm able to solve this.
I copied uImage to vmlinuz-3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 and I'm now able to proceed.

Thanks a lot for the help despite being on vocations.:-)



On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:


On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:29:11PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> supermin: kernel: SUPERMIN_KERNEL environment variable /boot/uImage
> supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64).
>
> I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.

If you follow the code in src/kernel.ml you'll see that this means
supermin was unable to get the kernel version from the supplied kernel
file.  The code is fairly simple to follow.  I barely have internet
access here and in any case I don't know what's in that uImage file,
so I suggest compiling supermin yourself, running the command by hand,
and adding printf's to src/kernel.ml in supermin to find the problem.

Rich.


>
> If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
> installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
> supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).
> libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see debug
> messages above
> libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
> libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
> libguestfs: command: run: rm
> libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsfPWXx0
>
>
>
> I think i need to enable virtio-serial in my kernel.
> I'll you let you know the result after enabling virtio-seriel in the kernel
> inn 5-10 min.
> Well sorry to disturb you on vocations.:-(
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:25:58PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> > > Hi RIch
> > >
> > >
> > > Below are the details of the powerpc ubuntu system ...
> > >
> > > ls -l /boot/
> > > total 10200
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5224765 Nov 22  2013 uImage
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5192861 Nov 22  2013 uImage.orig
> > >
> > >
> > > ls -l /lib/modules/
> > > total 4
> > > drwxr-xr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jun  3 07:21 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
> > >
> > >
> > > uname -a
> > > Linux t4240-ubuntu1310 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 #10 SMP Tue May 27
> > > 10:48:24 IST 2014 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Well, assuming the modules directory matches the kernel (uImage)
> > you could try:
> >
> > export SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/uImage
> > export SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
> >
> > Are these homebrew kernels?  I'm surprised that an official Ubuntu
> > ppc kernel would have such a non-standard name.  Anyway, if homebrew
> > you'll also need to ensure the kernel supports all the usual virtio
> > devices (especially virtio-serial, which is required by libguestfs).
> >
> > Rich.
> >
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