powernv machine complains of missing skiboot files
Bug #1822012 reported by
mcandre
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qemu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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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:/
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-
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This sounds like a bug in the packaging of Ubuntu, so I've moved it to the Ubuntu tracker