libvirt users - Mar 2017 - MIPS emulation broken - No PCI buses available

I am trying to create a QEMU MIPS guest, so that I can test some code
for big-endian safety.

Every attempt to create a MIPS guest is giving me an error:

   Unable to complete install: 'XML error: No PCI buses available'

It seems like this is a known issue.

   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-May/msg00197.html

However, I am still getting this on a fully updated Fedora 25 system
with libvirt-2.2.0-2.fc25.x86_64.

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Ian Pilcher
wrote:
> I am trying to create a QEMU MIPS guest, so that I can test some code
> for big-endian safety.
You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more
widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work reliably.
> Every attempt to create a MIPS guest is giving me an error:
> 
>   Unable to complete install: 'XML error: No PCI buses available'
> 
> It seems like this is a known issue.
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-May/msg00197.html
> 
> However, I am still getting this on a fully updated Fedora 25 system
> with libvirt-2.2.0-2.fc25.x86_64.
It seems that patch you quote was never applied to libvirt. There was
some debate in the thread that follows and it seems it was never
resolved.

Please do file a bug against libvirt so this doesn't get lost again.


Regards,
Daniel
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On 03/14/2017 05:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more
> widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work reliably.
I did try that, but I wasn't able to get past errors about the
machine type not supporting IDE (or something like that).  I finally
just gave up and use qemu-system-ppc directly, along with an older
Debian QCOW image that I found somewhere.
> Please do file a bug against libvirt so this doesn't get lost again.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432101

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