[Spice-devel] [Qemu-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 0.15

[Vadim Rozenfeld]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 19:50 -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 08:02 PM, Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote:
> > Vadim,
> >
> > Thank you for your prompt reply. Here are the information for our test case.
> >
> >
> > 1) we use the following command line to launch the guest OS
> >
> >
> > /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name win_xp -uuid d9388815-ddd3-c38e-33c2-a9d5fcc7a775 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win_xp.monitor,server,nowait
> > -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline
> > -rtc base=localtime
> > -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5.0x0
> > -drive file=/media/Images/Windows-XP.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw
> > -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1
> > -netdev tap,fd=17,id=hostnet0
> > -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:e8:dc:b1,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x3.0x0
> > -chardev pty,id=charserial0
> > -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
> > -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent
> > -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> > -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
> > -spice port=5900,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing
> > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0x0
> >
> >
> >
> > 2). In Guest Windows XP OS
> >
> >
> > When the following callback function of the vioserial device  is called in guest OS. The allocated resources is empty.
> >
> >
> > VIOSerialEvtDevicePrepareHardware() ---This function is to get the I/O address of the vioserial device and map the physical address to the logical address space.
> >
> > I added the following trace and the value of nListSize is ZERO.
> > TraceEvents(TRACE_LEVEL_INFORMATION, DBG_PNP, "%s (nListSize=%d)\n", __FUNCTION__,nListSize);
> >
> >
> > So far, we have tested Qemu 0.14 without any problem but Qemu 0.15 seemed to be broken in vioserial device.
> > Let me know if you need further information. Thanks.
> >
> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> What versions of the virtio-win drivers are you using?
> 
> I've been testing virtio-serial on windows using the latest qemu.git 
> (1.0). Linux guests work fine, but I've been having various issues with 
> Windows 7, XP SP3, and Server 2008 R1. XP SP3 works intermittently for 
> me using RHEL6.0 virtio-win, as well as the drivers at:
> 

I have seen some virtio serial port initialization problems on 1.0.50.
Will try to look into this problem in the following week(s).

> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
> 
> But I've been getting a mix of issues such as guest hangs, vioser-test 
> failing to enumerate any virtio-serial devices, or various non-critical 
> error messages from qemu that seem to coincide with the channel being 
> open/closed (occasionally resulting in the channel becoming unresponsive).
> 
> Do any of these seem similar to the behaviour you're seeing? If so I'll 
> see if the issues go away on 0.14.0 and follow-up with a git bisect.
>