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How to install qemu-system-s390x on Ubuntu 16.04.4

Asked by Gael Crova

Hi,

I'm using an up to date Ubuntu Xenial 16.04.4 (x86_64) system but I can't see the qemu-system-s390x package.

Is package available for this Ubuntu version, or is there an issue with module packaging ?

Please note that I can see all other qemu-system modules (successfully using ppcle one).

Thanks for your help !
Regards
Gael

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If you look at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=qemu-system-s390x you can see that qemu-system-s390x on Ubuntu 16.04 exists only for s390x architecture.

I do not know the reason for this, and for Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 it is provided for all standard architectures including amd64.

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Gael Crova (gcrova) said : 		#2

Thanks Manfred !

Yes that's why I'm asking for any packaging issue on Xenial. Support for x86_64 would help me a lot !

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

There is bug #1710695 telling that this problem was solved for version 1:2.10 (delivered in Artful)

For xenial you should have a look at https://launchpad.net/~alindt/+archive/ubuntu/xenial-backports
Maybe that contains what you need.

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Gael Crova (gcrova) said : 		#4

I can install the module using the backports repository but my "s390" Docker container is not working - so it might not be stable enough.
Do you know if there is an update planned for this package on Xenial in few days/weeks ?
Thanks again !

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

I do not expect that there is any change planned on xenial.
You can create a bug report, but I doubt that this will be done at all, because in a few weeks Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be published, and as far as I can see it contains qemu-system-s390x for arm64 and i386.

Is it necessary that you run Ubuntu xenial (16.04)? Artful (17.10) and bionic (18.04) seem to have the package that you are looking for.

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Gael Crova (gcrova) said : 		#6

Ok thanks ... I then have to wait for next LTS to be available as my infrastructure team is only providing us LTS Ubuntu machines.17.10 & 18.04 are not LTS yet.. so waiting.

Thanks !

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