Re: Bester installation image missing virtio net Modulen

On 2021-04-26 08:35, Benjamin Zimmermann wrote:
> About a year ago, Viktor Mihajovski pointed out, that the virtio net 
> modules (and deoendencies) are missing, this is still the case.
> 
> For an installation to work via virt-install, you have to manually add 
> failover.ko, net_failover.ko and virtio_net.ko 
> (debian-10.9.0-s390x-netinst.iso) and set the right console (ttysclp0).

How do you do the latter? console=ttysclp0? But presumably that's not 
valid everywhere. Are you seeing the steal_ctty failure otherwise? In 
what environment?

> These seem like really easy additions to make things work again (adding 
> them to the image).

I already did that for the next release 
(https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/262). Feel 
free to propose something similar for stable.

> I'll put my workaround on of those wellknown portals during the day, 
> for anyone who is interested.

Given that ~no-one works on Debian s390x, people will need to step up 
and fix things in Debian.

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern