[Bug 1519836] Re: MaaS fails to boot Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines

[Chris Valean]

Thanks Adam, we're checking on this.

Please note that the tsc_pit.c file is part of beta3 only, wasn't present for beta2. 
So even if this works, probably it will only if current supported releases will also get grub2 beta3, if there are plans for adding it.

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Title:
  MaaS fails to boot Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines

Status in MAAS:
  Invalid
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When trying to deploy a "Generation 2" virtual machine on Hyper-V,
  grub fails to fetch the linux kernel and initrd from MaaS. The
  operation times out immediately, because the Generation 2 VMs are
  missing the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT). The current version of
  grub still requires this interface to exist, in order to calculate
  time.

  There is a patch that uses the EFI SetTimer() available here:

  http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42944

  and an alternative in the discussion here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2014-10/msg00016.html

  that uses pmtimer instead. I am aware that grub is a critical package.
  What is the official/proper way to fix this issue? Can a patched
  grubnetx64.efi be packaged with MaaS? Do we have to wait for this fix
  to merge?

  Gabriel

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