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For development purposes, allow people to select the alpine.iso blob that ships with the propolis-server zone image as an image source.

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@jmpesp jmpesp changed the title add ability to use files as image add YouCanBootAnythingAsLongAsItsAlpine image source May 26, 2022
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Unfortunately this doesn't seem to boot through through the default NVMe device emulation. This can be reproduced with:

    wget https://oxide-omicron-build.s3.amazonaws.com/OVMF_CODE.fd
    wget https://oxide-omicron-build.s3.amazonaws.com/alpine.iso
    qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -bios OVMF_CODE.fd \
        -machine pc-i440fx-focal \
        -m 1g \
        -drive file=alpine.iso,if=none,format=raw,id=nvme1 \
        -device nvme,drive=nvme1,serial=nvme-1,addr=0x4

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Note the original propolis config used the "pci-virtio-block" device.

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Unfortunately this doesn't seem to boot through through the default NVMe device emulation.

I should be more clear - it does boot to a UEFI shell. If you enter FS0:\efi\boot\bootx64.efi, it does take you to a grub prompt, and fails to boot further. On the serial console:

Mounting boot media failed. 
initramfs emergency recovery shell launched. Type 'exit' to continue boot
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
/ #

I suspect this is due to a missing NVMe module.

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The latest alpine-virt-3.16.0-x86_64.iso does boot with the qemu invocation above (specifically, through NVMe).

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I've updated our alpine.iso to alpine-virt-3.16.0-x86_64.iso, and now the above qemu invocation works, and booting an instance using a disk based on

~/cli/cli.sh api /images --method POST --input - <<EOF
{
  "name": "alpine",
  "description": "boot from propolis zone blob!",
  "block_size": 512,
  "source": {
    "type": "you_can_boot_anything_as_long_as_its_alpine"
  }
}
EOF

works too.

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YouCanBootAnythingAsLongAsItsAlpine image source
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For development purposes, allow people to select the alpine.iso blob
that ships with the propolis-server zone image as an image source.
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@jmpesp jmpesp merged commit 23ca5df into oxidecomputer:main Jun 2, 2022
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leftwo pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 16, 2023
Update Crucible and Propolis
e372b92 
Propolis changes:
PHD: refactor & add support Propolis server "environments" (#547)
Begin making Accessor interface more robust
Update Crucible and Omicron deps for Hakari fixes
Add cloud-init volume generation to standalone
Use specified toolchain version for all GHA checks
Use params to configure rust-toolchain in GHA
Update and lock GHA dependencies

Crucible changes:
Use regions_dataset path for apply_smf (#1000)
Don't unwrap when we can't create a dataset (#992)
Fix tests and update log messages. (#995)
Better backpressure (#990)
Update Rust crate proptest to 1.3.1 (#977)
Read only downstairs can skip Live Repair (#984)
Update Rust crate expectorate to 1.1.0 (#975)
Add trait for `ExtentInner` (#982)
report backpressure in upstairs_info dtrace probe (#987)
Support multiple downstairs operations in GtoS (#985)
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Update Crucible and Propolis (#4282)
42732fa 
Propolis changes:
PHD: refactor & add support Propolis server "environments" (#547) Begin
making Accessor interface more robust
Update Crucible and Omicron deps for Hakari fixes
Add cloud-init volume generation to standalone
Use specified toolchain version for all GHA checks Use params to
configure rust-toolchain in GHA
Update and lock GHA dependencies

Crucible changes:
Use regions_dataset path for apply_smf (#1000)
Don't unwrap when we can't create a dataset (#992) Fix tests and update
log messages. (#995)
Better backpressure (#990)
Update Rust crate proptest to 1.3.1 (#977)
Read only downstairs can skip Live Repair (#984)
Update Rust crate expectorate to 1.1.0 (#975)
Add trait for `ExtentInner` (#982)
report backpressure in upstairs_info dtrace probe (#987) Support
multiple downstairs operations in GtoS (#985)

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Co-authored-by: Alan Hanson <alan@oxide.computer>
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