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libguestfs-test-tool
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PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
SELinux: Disabled
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: libvirt
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: direct
libguestfs: launch: backend=direct
libguestfs: launch: tmpdir=/tmp/libguestfskHPB9d
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: [00015ms] finished building supermin appliance
libguestfs: [00015ms] 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 1.4
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/kvm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -display none
libguestfs: command: run: \ -machine accel=kvm:tcg
libguestfs: command: run: \ -device ?
libguestfs: [00072ms] finished testing qemu features
ROOT IS  root=/dev/sda
[00074ms] /usr/bin/kvm \
    -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \
    -nodefconfig \
    -enable-fips \
    -nodefaults \
    -display none \
    -M ppce500 \
    -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/libguestfskHPB9d/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/libguestfskHPB9d/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/sda selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm'
Using QEMU e500 machine description
MMU: Supported page sizes
         4 KB as direct
      1024 KB as direct
      2048 KB as direct
      4096 KB as direct
     16384 KB as direct
     65536 KB as direct
    262144 KB as direct
   1048576 KB as direct
MMU: Book3E HW tablewalk not supported
Found initrd at 0xc000000003000000:0xc0000000030b0800
bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core
Starting Linux PPC64 #10 SMP Tue May 27 10:48:24 IST 2014
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ppc64_pft_size                = 0x0
physicalMemorySize            = 0x30000000
ppc64_caches.dcache_line_size = 0x40
ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0x40
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Linux version 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 (vvdn@openflow1) (gcc version 4.7.2 (GCC) ) #10 SMP Tue May 27 10:48:24 IST 2014
CF000012

Setup Arch
[boot]0012 Setup Arch
qemu_e500_setup_arch()
Zone ranges:
  DMA      [mem 0x00000000-0x2fffffff]
  Normal   empty
Movable zone start for each node
Early memory node ranges
  node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x2fffffff]
MMU: Allocated 2112 bytes of context maps for 255 contexts
CF000015

Setup Done
[boot]0015 Setup Done
PERCPU: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @c000000001a00000 s25408 r0 d31936 u1048576
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 193920
Kernel command line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sda selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 692292k/786432k available (11800k kernel code, 94140k reserved, 1192k data, 1890k bss, 392k init)
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] \tRCU debugfs-based tracing is enabled.
[    0.000000] \tCONFIG_RCU_FANOUT set to non-default value of 32
[    0.000000] \tRCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=24 to nr_cpu_ids=1.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:512 nr_irqs:512 16
[    0.000000] mpic: Setting up MPIC " OpenPIC  " version 1.2 at e0040000, max 1 CPUs
[    0.000000] mpic: ISU size: 256, shift: 8, mask: ff
[    0.000000] mpic: Initializing for 256 sources
[    0.000000] clocksource: timebase mult[18000006] shift[24] registered
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[    0.003054] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.004316] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
[    0.006864] e6500 family performance monitor hardware support registered
[    0.009259] Brought up 1 CPUs
[    0.010581] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.011938] xor: measuring software checksum speed
[    0.050112]    8regs     :  3397.000 MB/sec
[    0.090254]    8regs_prefetch:  2978.000 MB/sec
[    0.130394]    32regs    :  3416.000 MB/sec
[    0.170533]    32regs_prefetch:  3067.000 MB/sec
[    0.171531] xor: using function: 32regs (3416.000 MB/sec)
[    0.173469] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.178003] Found FSL PCI host bridge at 0x00000000e0008000. Firmware bus number: 0->255
[    0.180031] PCI host bridge /pci@e0008000 (primary) ranges:
[    0.181365]  MEM 0x00000000c0000000..0x00000000dfffffff -> 0x00000000c0000000
[    0.183225]   IO 0x00000000e1000000..0x00000000e100ffff -> 0x0000000000000000
[    0.185264] /pci@e0008000: PCICSRBAR @ 0xfff00000
[    0.186941] EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module 'MPC85xx_edac' controller 'mpc85xx_pci_err': DEV 'e0008000.pci' (INTERRUPT)
[    0.189817] MPC85xx_edac acquired irq 24 for PCI Err
[    0.191022] MPC85xx_edac PCI err registered
[    0.193819] fsl-pamu: fsl_pamu_init: fsl-pamu: could not find a PAMU node
[    0.205939] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[    0.207355] fsl-pci e0008000.pci: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    0.208798] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x10000-0x1ffff] (bus address [0x0000-0xffff])
[    0.211042] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff]
[    0.212631] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[    0.219804] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    0.222854] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01-ff]
[    0.225264] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:00.0, will remap
[    0.227192] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:01.0, will remap
[    0.229195] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:02.0, will remap
[    0.231299] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xc0000000-0xc00fffff]
[    0.235514] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0xc0100000-0xc01fffff]
[    0.237120] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0xc0200000-0xc0200fff]
[    0.238760] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0xc0201000-0xc0201fff]
[    0.240585] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 0: assigned [io  0x11000-0x1103f]
[    0.242078] pci 0000:00:02.0: BAR 0: assigned [io  0x11040-0x1105f]
[    0.243614] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[    0.244871] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [io  0x10000-0x10fff]
[    0.246514] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [mem 0xc0100000-0xc01fffff]
[    0.274019] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.341414] raid6: altivecx1  1458 MB/s
[    0.409673] raid6: altivecx2  1815 MB/s
[    0.477900] raid6: altivecx4  2740 MB/s
[    0.546168] raid6: altivecx8  2824 MB/s
[    0.615756] raid6: int64x1    454 MB/s
[    0.683978] raid6: int64x2    828 MB/s
[    0.752252] raid6: int64x4   1215 MB/s
[    0.820492] raid6: int64x8   1156 MB/s
[    0.821308] raid6: using algorithm altivecx8 (2824 MB/s)
[    0.822588] raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm
[    0.825003] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.826260] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.828405] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.829920] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.831385] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.833694] No BMan portals available!
[    0.835552] QMan: Allocated lookup table at 8000000000000000, entry count 65537
[    0.837293] No QMan portals available!
[    0.839553] Switching to clocksource timebase
[    0.854468] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.856161] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.858151] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.860016] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.861788] TCP: reno registered
[    0.862622] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.864043] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.865958] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.867389] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.868833] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.870008] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.871223] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.873628] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[    0.879131] Freeing initrd memory: 708k freed
[    0.883089] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[    0.884471] type=2000 audit(0.860:1): initialized
[    0.887288] HugeTLB registered 1 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.888897] HugeTLB registered 4 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.890385] HugeTLB registered 16 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.891886] HugeTLB registered 64 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.893612] HugeTLB registered 256 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.895169] HugeTLB registered 1 GB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[    0.899032] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.900644] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.901688] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.902737] NTFS driver 2.1.30 [Flags: R/O].
[    0.903974] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) \xc2\xa9 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.905732] msgmni has been set to 1484
[    0.908969] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.909829] io scheduler deadline registered
[    0.910918] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.913372] virtio-pci 0000:00:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    0.920895] virtio-pci 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    0.928987] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    0.956597] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xe0004500 (irq = 42) is a 16550A
[    0.958382] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.958382] console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.962318] ePAPR hypervisor byte channel driver
[    0.970553] brd: module loaded
[    0.975187] loop: module loaded
[    0.976939] nbd: registered device at major 43
[    0.985441] st: Version 20101219, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
[    0.991404] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    0.992749] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[    0.994003] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
[    0.996354] Freescale FM module (May 27 2014:10:45:13), FMD API version 21.1.0
[    1.000907] Freescale FM Ports module (May 16 2014:00:31:38)
[    1.002342] dpaa_debugfs: FSL DPAA Ethernet debugfs entries ()
[    1.003957] fsl_mac: mac.c:417:mac_load() fsl_mac: FSL FMan MAC API based driver ()
[    1.006326] fsl_dpa: dpaa_eth.c:4321:dpa_load() fsl_dpa: FSL DPAA Ethernet driver ()
[    1.008393] fsl_oh: offline_port.c:439:oh_port_load() fsl_oh: FSL FMan Offline Parsing port driver ()
[    1.010864] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.1.4-k
[    1.012256] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2012 Intel Corporation.
[    1.014497] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    1.016380] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[    1.017846] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[    1.019309] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    1.020833] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[    1.022518] i2c /dev entries driver
[    1.023797] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
[    1.025294] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
[    1.026604] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
[    1.028252] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.23.1-ioctl (2012-12-18) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[    1.030482] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[    1.031731] Freescale(R) MPC85xx EDAC driver, (C) 2006 Montavista Software
[    1.034030] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    1.035484] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    1.036663] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    1.038870] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.040182] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.041687] No fsl,qman node
[    1.042686] Freescale USDPAA process driver
[    1.043761] fsl-usdpaa: no region found
[    1.044844] Freescale USDPAA process IRQ driver
[    1.046690] Freescale pme2 db driver
[    1.047513] PME2: fsl_pme2_db_init: not on ctrl-plane
[    1.048880] Freescale pme2 scan driver
[    1.050045] fsl-pme2-scan: device pme_scan registered
[    1.051552] Freescale hypervisor management driver
[    1.052814] fsl-hv: no hypervisor found
[    1.053807] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[    1.054987] nfnl_acct: registering with nfnetlink.
[    1.056250] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (5937 buckets, 23748 max)
[    1.058187] ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
[    1.059611] NF_TPROXY: Transparent proxy support initialized, version 4.1.0
[    1.061434] NF_TPROXY: Copyright (c) 2006-2007 BalaBit IT Ltd.
[    1.064252] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[    1.065602] IPVS: Registered protocols (TCP, UDP, SCTP, AH, ESP)
[    1.067159] IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=64Kbytes)
[    1.069253] IPVS: Creating netns size=2024 id=0
[    1.070459] IPVS: ipvs loaded.
[    1.071183] IPVS: [rr] scheduler registered.
[    1.072265] IPVS: [wrr] scheduler registered.
[    1.073429] IPVS: [lc] scheduler registered.
[    1.074528] IPVS: [wlc] scheduler registered.
[    1.075638] IPVS: [lblc] scheduler registered.
[    1.076826] IPVS: [lblcr] scheduler registered.
[    1.077994] IPVS: [dh] scheduler registered.
[    1.079107] IPVS: [sh] scheduler registered.
[    1.080190] IPVS: [sed] scheduler registered.
[    1.081355] IPVS: [nq] scheduler registered.
[    1.082520] IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[    1.084518] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    1.086170] ipt_CLUSTERIP: ClusterIP Version 0.8 loaded successfully
[    1.087750] arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
[    1.089008] TCP: cubic registered
[    1.089889] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    1.091039] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    1.092910] mip6: Mobile IPv6
[    1.093651] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    1.095122] sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[    1.104394] ip6_gre: GRE over IPv6 tunneling driver
[    1.108909] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.110903] NET: Registered protocol family 15
[    1.113058] Bridge firewalling registered
[    1.114705] Ebtables v2.0 registered
[    1.116777] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    1.118660] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    1.126368] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    1.131085] Freeing unused kernel memory: 392k freed
supermin: mounting /proc
supermin: uptime: 1.11 184987.52
supermin: ext2 mini initrd starting up: 5.1.8 zlib
supermin: cmdline: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sda selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm
supermin: mounting /sys
supermin: internal insmod crc-itu-t.ko
cmdline is panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sda selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm
 
supermin: waiting another 1024000000 ns for /sys/block/sda/dev to appear
supermin: waiting another 2048000000 ns for /sys/block/sda/dev to appear
supermin: waiting another 4096000000 ns for /sys/block/sda/dev to appear
supermin: waiting another 8192000000 ns for /sys/block/sda/dev to appear
supermin: waiting another 16384000000 ns for /sys/block/sda/dev to appear