[Bug 1597610] [NEW] virt-install default to virtio type - disk and network

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== Comment: #0 - JENIFER HOPPER <jhopper at us.ibm.com> - 2016-06-28 11:58:08 ==
---Problem Description---
For best performance, we would like Power guests to default to virtio for disk and network type when using virt-install. All supported ppc64le guest OSes have virtio support. 

For the disk default, there is an upstream commit:

commit f6322c9ed8e6d38083e6365ab9f08e5a09d147be
Author: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 21 13:30:34 2016 +0530

    virtinst: Use virtio bus type for disks on pSeries machines
    
    pSeries doesn't support ide and so was changed to use the scsi. virtio works better on pSeries with better performance outcomes. Change the default to virtio for disks
    
    Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

http://www.spinics.net/lists/virt-tools/msg09433.html

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I am checking on the current upstream status for the network default. 
Looks like right now on 16.04, virt-install defaults to rtl8139 even if --os-variant is used. 
 
---uname output---
Linux p82qvirt 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:25:36 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
 
Machine Type = 8247-22L 
 
---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured
 
---Steps to Reproduce---
 Start a guest using virt-install using all defaults. 

# dpkg -l | grep virtinst
ii  virtinst                           1:1.3.2-3ubuntu1.16.04.1            all          Programs to create and clone virtual machines
 
Contact Information = jhopper at us.ibm.com

== Comment: #4 - Shivaprasad G. Bhat <shivapbh at in.ibm.com> - 2016-06-29 03:32:28 ==
Hi Jennifer,

The below patch also needs to pulled into Ubuntu as the CDROMs cannot work on virtio bus on PPC.
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/commit/94f610465f45264142ff5def7b5ceaf9ecfe065b

Thanks,
Shiva

== Comment: #8 - SANDHYA VENUGOPALA <vsandhya at in.ibm.com> - 2016-06-30 01:21:01 ==
Canonical,

Please include the upstream disk and cdrom patches listed in this bug
report.

please note that network portion is still a work in progress and a patch
will made available for inclusion soon.

Changing the network default would significantly help out of the box
performance, but as of now many users are probably aware that virtio is
a good tuning option.

** Affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Ubuntu Server Team (ubuntu-server)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-143151 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin16041
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virt-install default to virtio type - disk and network
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1597610
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