Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.16
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I found that autopkgtest-virt-qemu in bullseye doesn't boot my disk
images. The version in buster was working fine.
Using --show-boot I found that the VM doesn't boot at all:
Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot failed: could not read the boot disk
The reason is that my disk images are raw images, not qcow2. I found
that autopkgtest runs qemu-img to create an overlay file in qcow2
format, but it configures qemu with the base image format (format=raw)
instead of the overlay format (format=qcow2). I converted an image to
qcow2 format and then it worked fine.
I'm attaching a patch to use format=qcow2 for the overlay image. Please
let me know if you'd prefer a Salsa merge request instead.
Thank you,
Ryan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii apt-utils 2.2.4
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends:
pn autodep8 <none>
Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
pn lxc <none>
pn lxd <none>
pn ovmf <none>
pn qemu-efi-aarch64 <none>
pn qemu-efi-arm <none>
pn qemu-system <none>
ii qemu-utils 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1
ii schroot 1.6.10-12
pn vmdb2 <none>
-- no debconf information
>From dc5722886920a030d850cd5e0a492c49ffa96988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Tandy <r...@nardis.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:19:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix qemu failing to boot raw base image
The overlay file is created with 'qemu-img -f qcow2', so pass
'format=qcow2' when using an overlay image. Otherwise, use the base
image format.
---
lib/autopkgtest_qemu.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/autopkgtest_qemu.py b/lib/autopkgtest_qemu.py
index 6733ede..fc8225c 100644
--- a/lib/autopkgtest_qemu.py
+++ b/lib/autopkgtest_qemu.py
@@ -156,13 +156,14 @@ class QemuImage:
if self.overlay is None:
bits.append('file={}'.format(self.file))
+ bits.append('format={}'.format(self.format))
else:
bits.append('file={}'.format(self.overlay))
+ bits.append('format=qcow2')
bits.append('cache=unsafe')
bits.append('if=virtio')
bits.append('discard=unmap')
- bits.append('format={}'.format(self.format))
if self.readonly:
bits.append('readonly')
--
2.30.2
