[Bug 1812087] Re: arm64/qemu: Fails to detect ISO image attached to QEMU via -cdrom

[dann frazier]

Here's a slightly modified test case from Ciro Santilli of ARM.

** Attachment added: "test.sh"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1812087/+attachment/5229719/+files/test.sh

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  arm64/qemu: Fails to detect ISO image attached to QEMU via -cdrom

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While the installer will boot in the QEMU virt model when an Ubuntu
  Server ISO is attached via QEMU's -cdrom parameter, the installer will
  fail at the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step. This appears to be because
  the -cdrom parameter in QEMU emulates what looks to be a disk to the
  VM (virtio block device), and not a CD-ROM.

  One reason for this is that the virtio-blk module is missing from the
  installer. It is in the block-modules udeb, so we could easily add it.
  Though this will allow the block device to appear in the installer
  environment, it is not sufficient.

  cdrom-detect calls 'list-devices cd' to scan for available CDs, which
  in turn calls 'udevadm info' on each device to look for ID_CDROM=
  attributes. But, virtio-blk devices do not have this attribute.

  I suspect that -cdrom on for qemu-system-x86 actually emulates a cdrom
  in the guest instead of a disk, so this isn't an issue for QEMU
  installs on x86. It is arguably a QEMU bug that this is different on
  arm64 and, perhaps, -cdrom on arm64 should be changed to emulate an
  actual CDROM (like can be done w/ a virtio-scsi-device), but I haven't
  looked into any history pros/cons there.

  I'm not sure what the correct way to fix this is. Should we even be
  supporting this in the cdrom build, or should we be building an hd-
  media image for arm64, and does that somehow need to be integrate on
  the server ISO? How does this work, say, for x86 in the case where you
  dd an ISO to a usb stick?

  Meanwhile, a workaround for this is to attach the device as a virtio-scsi-device, as shown here:
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testcase/ubuntu-manual-tests/trunk/view/head:/testcases/image/1688_ARM64_Headless_KVM_Guest

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