[Linuxppc-users] Live VM disk removal failure

[Michael Ellerman]

Samuel D Matzek <smatzek at us.ibm.com> writes:

> Thanks Leo, Rafael, and Jason.
> Following your pointers I was able to get the hot plug of volumes working
> through OpenStack.
> For the record, and mail archive searching purposes, the Ubuntu 16.04 cloud
> image from Canonical did not have ppc64-diag nor
> linux-image-extra-<version>-generic installed.
> The cloud image already had librtas2 and powerpc-utils. I simply did an apt-get
> update followed by the install of those two packages, a reboot, and live
> attach/detach worked.
> Also of interest is that the 16.10 Yakkety image was different:
> ppc64-diag was in main and installed
> linux-image-extra-<version>-generic was NOT installed
> It did not have the rpadlpar module in the file system.
> However, given rpadlpar and the linux-image-extra package was not installed,
> live attach/detach works at Yakkety.

How is your disk attached? Is it virtio or vio/ibmvscsi?

cheers