[Bug 1844366] Re: spice not supported on ppc64el or s390x on stein

[James Page]

stein is aligned with package versions in disco, so will remain on qemu
3.1.

train will ship with qemu 4.0.

That said I have memory that console access is not generally supported
in ppc64el or s390x and that virtual serial console is the only option.

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Title:
  spice not supported on ppc64el or s390x on stein

Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  New

Bug description:
  When setting console-access-protocol to 'spice' in the stein charms on
  bionic, we got the following error from ppc64el and s390x compute
  nodes when people tried starting instances:

  Failed to start libvirt guest: libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported
  configuration: spice graphics are not supported with this QEMU

  It seems that at least ppc64el is supported in QEMU 4.0, but the stein
  repo only includes a 3.1 package.  I can see that qemu-system-ppc_4.0
  +dfsg-0ubuntu7~cloud0_ppc64el.deb is in the pool, but the 3.1 package
  has a generation number so I'm not sure what the status of these
  versions is.

  I have not investigated s390x support for spice in qemu versions.

  Is it possible to get bionic/stein upgraded to where it can support
  spice on all architectures?

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