[Bug 1872941] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 07:41, bugproxy <bugproxy at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> ------- Comment From cborntra at de.ibm.com 2020-04-28 02:27 EDT-------
> > Booting over the public internet FTP server, terrifies me. Because
> > there is no secureboot verification of either kernel or the initrd.
> > Meaning it's trivial to man-in-the-middle attack, and inject things
> > into the installer. Can HMC support HTTPS load?
>
> It does support FTPS (via SSL) and SFTP  (via SSH). Not sure how good
> the certificate verification is.
>
> Can you maybe open an RFE against the HMC to also provide HTTPS?
>

Oooh, let me check if we have or can deploy FTPS.

Pure HTTPS is a bit awkward, because there is no directory discovery
like there is over (S)FTP(S). I need to check how UEFI HTTPS boot
works, to see if something "in spirit" similar can be done on HMC.

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Dimitri.

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Title:
  [Ubuntu 20.04] virt-install fails to detect path after images folder
  name has changed

Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
  Opinion
Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Fix Released
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in virt-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  
  For 20.04.0 d-i is changing from /images/ to /legacy-images/ in it's directory structure.

  For 20.04.1+ it will not exist at all.

  For all Ubuntu releases virt-install should learn how to use cloud-
  images from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ which are preinstalled
  cloud-init enabled qcow2 images, with unpacked kernels. Allowing to
  change kernel cmdline parameters and boot in-place. Which is the best
  & default Ubuntu experience on VMs.

  ---

  Installer version: Latest
  https://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x

  Description/Reproduction:
  Start virt-install with the following options:

  virt-install \
  --name ubuntu20-guest1 \
  --memory 4096 \
  --vcpus 4 \
  --disk "size=4" \
  --location http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x \
  --network "network=default"

  Error:
  ERROR    Error validating install location: Could not find an installable distribution at 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x'

  The location must be the root directory of an install tree.
  See virt-install man page for various distro examples.

  Looking at previous releases I would guess it expects an "images"
  directory instead of the new "legacy-images" directory. I'm aware of
  the workaround to specify kernel/initramfs directly but that shouldn't
  be a solution.

  == Comment: #2 - Andre Wild1 <Andre.Wild1 at ibm.com> - 2020-04-15 03:51:21 ==
  (In reply to comment #0)
  > Installer version: Latest
  > https://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x
  >

  Sorry I've copied the wrong link. This is the link I've used successfully in the past:
  http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/focal/main/installer-s390x

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