10:35 a.m.
I didn't test this one fully yet, but I'm building Fedora 26 ppc64/le
test images now. However it seems like it could be a good idea. I
wonder if anyone depends on the images we supply being MBR-based?
Rich.
10:35 a.m.
The immediate issue is with Fedora/ppc64 and /ppc64le which currently
use extended partitions, breaking the virt-builder ‘--size’ parameter,
eg:
$ virt-builder --arch ppc64le fedora-26 --size 20G
...
[ 21.6] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 20.0G
virt-resize: error: /dev/sda5: partition not found in the source disk image
(this error came from '--expand' option on the command line). Try running
this command: virt-filesystems --partitions --long -a /var/tmp/vbf67b8c.img
However more generally MBR is broken and should die. GPT is supported
by all modern virtual bootloaders, so just default to it.
Notes:
* This is different from mandating a UEFI bootloader.
* I am not planning to rebuild any existing images except the
F26 ppc64 & ppc64le ones.
---
builder/templates/make-template.ml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builder/templates/make-template.ml b/builder/templates/make-template.ml
index 8667bfa3e..38c7a36e3 100755
--- a/builder/templates/make-template.ml
+++ b/builder/templates/make-template.ml
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ part / --fstype=%s --size=1024 --grow --asprimary
| CentOS _ | RHEL _ | Fedora _ ->
bpf "\
zerombr
-clearpart --all --initlabel
+clearpart --all --initlabel --disklabel=gpt
autopart --type=plain
";
| _ -> assert false (* cannot happen, see caller *)
--
2.13.2
3:46 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:35:51PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
The immediate issue is with Fedora/ppc64 and /ppc64le which
currently
use extended partitions, breaking the virt-builder ‘--size’ parameter,
eg:
$ virt-builder --arch ppc64le fedora-26 --size 20G
...
[ 21.6] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 20.0G
virt-resize: error: /dev/sda5: partition not found in the source disk image
(this error came from '--expand' option on the command line). Try running
this command: virt-filesystems --partitions --long -a /var/tmp/vbf67b8c.img
Before this change, the fedora-26-ppc64 template looks like:
Name Type VFS Label MBR Size Parent
/dev/sda1 filesystem unknown - - 4.0M -
/dev/sda2 filesystem ext4 - - 1.0G -
/dev/sda3 filesystem swap - - 615M -
/dev/sda4 filesystem unknown - - 1.0K -
/dev/sda5 filesystem xfs - - 4.4G -
/dev/sda1 partition - - 41 4.0M /dev/sda
/dev/sda2 partition - - 83 1.0G /dev/sda
/dev/sda3 partition - - 82 615M /dev/sda
/dev/sda4 partition - - 05 1.0K /dev/sda
/dev/sda5 partition - - 83 4.4G /dev/sda
/dev/sda device - - - 6.0G -
Note it's using MBR with an extended partition.
After this change:
Name Type VFS Label MBR Size Parent
/dev/sda1 filesystem unknown - - 4.0M -
/dev/sda2 filesystem ext4 - - 1.0G -
/dev/sda3 filesystem swap - - 615M -
/dev/sda4 filesystem xfs - - 4.4G -
/dev/sda1 partition - - - 4.0M /dev/sda
/dev/sda2 partition - - - 1.0G /dev/sda
/dev/sda3 partition - - - 615M /dev/sda
/dev/sda4 partition - - - 4.4G /dev/sda
/dev/sda device - - - 6.0G -
I didn't test virt-builder "full stack" yet, but virt-resize has no
problem, so this does appear to fix the original bug:
$ virt-resize fedora-26-ppc64 output --expand /dev/sda4
$ virt-filesystems -a output --all --long -h
Name Type VFS Label MBR Size Parent
/dev/sda1 filesystem unknown - - 4.0M -
/dev/sda2 filesystem ext4 - - 1.0G -
/dev/sda3 filesystem swap - - 615M -
/dev/sda4 filesystem xfs - - 8.4G -
/dev/sda1 partition - - - 4.0M /dev/sda
/dev/sda2 partition - - - 1.0G /dev/sda
/dev/sda3 partition - - - 615M /dev/sda
/dev/sda4 partition - - - 8.4G /dev/sda
/dev/sda device - - - 10G -
The VM also boots OK.
Rich.
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7:57 a.m.
On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:35:51 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
The immediate issue is with Fedora/ppc64 and /ppc64le which
currently
use extended partitions, breaking the virt-builder ‘--size’ parameter,
eg:
$ virt-builder --arch ppc64le fedora-26 --size 20G
...
[ 21.6] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 20.0G
virt-resize: error: /dev/sda5: partition not found in the source disk image
(this error came from '--expand' option on the command line). Try running
this command: virt-filesystems --partitions --long -a /var/tmp/vbf67b8c.img
However more generally MBR is broken and should die. GPT is supported
by all modern virtual bootloaders, so just default to it.
Notes:
* This is different from mandating a UEFI bootloader.
* I am not planning to rebuild any existing images except the
F26 ppc64 & ppc64le ones.
---
The reasons above suggest me that we should switch all the distros (in the
libguestfs.org repository) to GPT, not just the ones in this patch.
--
Pino Toscano
10:53 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 02:57:50PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:35:51 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The immediate issue is with Fedora/ppc64 and /ppc64le which currently
> use extended partitions, breaking the virt-builder ‘--size’ parameter,
> eg:
>
> $ virt-builder --arch ppc64le fedora-26 --size 20G
> ...
> [ 21.6] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 20.0G
> virt-resize: error: /dev/sda5: partition not found in the source disk image
> (this error came from '--expand' option on the command line). Try
running
> this command: virt-filesystems --partitions --long -a /var/tmp/vbf67b8c.img
>
> However more generally MBR is broken and should die. GPT is supported
> by all modern virtual bootloaders, so just default to it.
>
> Notes:
>
> * This is different from mandating a UEFI bootloader.
>
> * I am not planning to rebuild any existing images except the
> F26 ppc64 & ppc64le ones.
> ---
The reasons above suggest me that we should switch all the distros (in the
libguestfs.org repository) to GPT, not just the ones in this patch.
I agree, although that's a bit more work as I'd have to work out how
to actually do that for the other distros.
This change fixes a concrete problem with Fedora/ppc64 which affects
us right now (with an open bug IIRC).
I'm not proposing to rebuild old images (except Fedora 26/ppc64*)
in any case.
Rich.
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