[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1822012] [NEW] powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files

[mcandre]

Public bug reported:

Hi, I want to use the powernv machine from the qemu-system-ppcle
application. However, when I specify this machine, qemu complains that
it can't find the skiboot files.

I noticed that skiboot is available for Ubuntu, but only for the PPC[64]
hosts. Well, I just need skiboot files for qemu on amd64 hosts.

Hmm, looks like Debian has a package for these missing qemu files:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/qemu-skiboot

Could we promote these to Ubuntu repositories, and fix the qemu packages
so that they automatically depend on the necessary BIOS packages? For
example, openbios-ppc should also be installed when qemu-system-
ppc[64[le]] are installed.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi, I want to use the powernv machine from the qemu-system-ppcle
  application. However, when I specify this machine, qemu complains that
  it can't find the skiboot files.

  I noticed that skiboot is available for Ubuntu, but only for the
  PPC[64] hosts. Well, I just need skiboot files for qemu on amd64
  hosts.

  Hmm, looks like Debian has a package for these missing qemu files:

  https://packages.debian.org/sid/qemu-skiboot

  Could we promote these to Ubuntu repositories, and fix the qemu
  packages so that they automatically depend on the necessary BIOS
  packages? For example, openbios-ppc should also be installed when
  qemu-system-ppc[64[le]] are installed.

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