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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:31:47 +0100
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Subject: Re: Unable to create virtual machines with LXD
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On Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 3:10 PM CET, Martin Rusko wrote:
> I can add that replacing /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd file form ovmf
> package with the file from ubuntu/22.04 makes the "feature check" to
> succeed. The size is quite different 3.5M (Alpine) vs 1.9M (Ubuntu).
> I'll try to see why that is.

ah, okay, means it's broken somehow indeed.
for reference the build for it is defined in:
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/edk2/APKBUILD

> /Martin
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:11 PM Martin Rusko <martin.rusko@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > when trying to create new LXD instance as a virtual machine, the
> > creation fails with following message:
> >
> > ~# lxc init images:alpine/3.17 alpine-test --vm
> > Creating alpine-test
> > Error: Failed instance creation: Failed creating instance record:
> > Instance type "virtual-machine" is not supported on this server: QEMU
> > failed to run feature checks
> >
> > And in the logs these two messages sheds a bit more light to it:
> >
> > level=3Derror msg=3D"Unable to run feature checks during QEMU
> > initialization: QEMU premature exit: exit status 1 (qemu: could not
> > load PC BIOS '/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd')"
> > level=3Dwarning msg=3D"Instance type not operational" driver=3Dqemu
> > err=3D"QEMU failed to run feature checks" type=3Dvirtual-machine
> >
> > I went to check sources (see [1], function checkFeatures(hostArch int,
> > qemuPath string)) and they seems to run qemu-system-x86_64 like this:
> >
> > ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -S -nographic -nodefaults -no-user-config
> > -machine q35 -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
> > qemu: could not load PC BIOS '/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd'
> >
> > Is this Alpine's bug? Or LXD upstream bug? I'm trying to run it on
> > "Alpine Linux v3.17".
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Martin
> >
> > [1] - https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/lxd/instance/drivers/drive=
r_qemu.go
> > --
> > Martin Rusko | martin.rusko@gmail.com | +46 768 598091 | +421 903 246 6=
98