@Christian The qemu fix is still necessary in order to resolve the issue.
While I do have access to the hardware, it is currently having issues booting. Once we resolve the issue with IBM, I plan on testing out the qemu fix from the PPA. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656112 Title: Power S822LC (8335-GTB) failes KVM guest cert test with kvm_init_vcpu failed: Invalid argument Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in qemu source package in Xenial: Triaged Bug description: Upon running the virtualization test from the certification test suite, the kvm guest test fails with the following error: kvm_init_vcpu failed: Invalid argument This same test works on multiple other IBM Power 8 and Openpower servers. kvm-ok tells us that kvm virtualization is supported. I have tried with SMT enabled and disabled. I have tried the latest cloud image as well as previous onces we had saved. I have tried running the qemu-system-ppc64 command found below manually with the same error. The full output from the test is as follows: Executing KVM Test DEBUG:root:Starting KVM Test DEBUG:root:Cloud image location specified: http://10.1.10.2/cloud/xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img. DEBUG:root:Downloading xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img, from http://10.1.10.2 DEBUG:root:Creating cloud user-data DEBUG:root:Creating cloud meta-data I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 331 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 0 183 extents written (0 MB) DEBUG:root:Attempting boot for:xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img DEBUG:root:Attaching Cloud config disk DEBUG:root:Using params:qemu-system-ppc64 -m 1024 -display none -nographic -net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -enable-kvm -machine pseries,usb=off -cpu POWER8 -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive file=seed.iso,if=virtio INFO:root:Storing VM console output in /home/ubuntu/.cache/plainbox/sessions/canonical-certification-server-2017-01-12T22.19.34.session/CHECKBOX_DATA/virt_debug ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic 4.4.0-59.80 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic ppc64le AlsaDevices: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 12 22:18 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 12 22:18 timer AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay' ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4 Architecture: ppc64el ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord' AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: Date: Thu Jan 12 22:45:34 2017 IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig' Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 125f:312b A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd. Superior S102 Pro Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046b:ff10 American Megatrends, Inc. Virtual Keyboard and Mouse Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046b:ff01 American Megatrends, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub PciMultimedia: ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 astdrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=a7ce18b4-4614-485f-9346-b19b0415db3a ro fips=1 ProcLoadAvg: 0.03 0.02 0.08 1/1288 11017 ProcLocks: 1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3709 00:14:665 0 EOF 2: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3593 00:14:655 0 EOF 3: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 1658 00:14:376 0 EOF 4: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 3560 00:14:637 0 EOF 5: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3571 00:14:640 0 EOF ProcSwaps: Filename Type Size Used Priority /swap.img file 8388544 0 -1 ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-59-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-029) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:35:59 UTC 2017 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157.6 RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill' SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20 cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20 cpu_dscr: DSCR is 0 cpu_freq: min: 3.959 GHz (cpu 79) max: 3.988 GHz (cpu 81) avg: 3.974 GHz cpu_runmode: Could not retrieve current diagnostics mode, No kernel interface to firmware cpu_smt: SMT=8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1656112/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp