[Spice-devel] Vdagent not working on xen linux hvm DomUs

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 12/12/2013 17:05, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 12/12/2013 16:23, Wei Liu ha scritto:
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I did some other tests, I narrowed down the commit range to the one 
>>> between:
>>>
>>> commit c9fea5d701f8fd33f0843728ec264d95cee3ed37 Mon, 22 Jul 2013
>>> 15:14:18 (Merge remote-tracking branch 'bonzini/iommu-for-anthony')
>>> where there is virtio net regression with xen
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> commit    962b03fcf509db25c847aa67c4eff574c240dcfe Thu, 4 Jul 2013
>>> 15:42:43 +0000 (xen: Mark fixed platform I/O as unaligned)
>>> where virtio net is working
>>>
>>> I also tested:
>>> commit 2562becfc126ed7678c662ee23b7c1fe135d8966 Mon, 15 Jul 2013
>>> 19:02:41 +0000
>>> and
>>> commit dcb117bfda5af6f6ceb7231778d36d8bce4aee93 Thu, 4 Jul 2013
>>> 15:42:46 +0000
>>> but qemu crashes on xl create for another error and I haven't found
>>> which is the commit to apply with git cherry-pick so that I can
>>> check if the virtio net regression is present.
>>>
>>> Can someone help me please?
>>>
>>> I added also qemu-devel to cc.
>>>
>
>> I did a quick test with Xen's QEMU, currently at
>>
>> commit 1c514a7734b7f98625a0d18d5e8ee7581f26e50c
>> Merge: 79c097d 35bdc13
>> Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
>> Date:   Tue Jun 25 11:34:24 2013 +0000
>>
>>      Merge remote branch 'perard/cpu-hotplug-port-v2' into 
>> xen-staging-master-7
>>
>> from git://xenbits.xen.org/qemu-upstream-unstable.git
>>
>> My guest is Squeeze with stock kernel 2.6.32.
>>
>> vif=['model=virtio-net-pci,bridge=xenbr0']
>>
>> No pci=nomsi in guest kernel command line.
>>
>> Everything worked fine. And /proc/interrupts shows that it's indeed
>> using MSI for virtio PCI.
>>
>> I'm kind of confused. (And in the long run of this thread I probably
>> didn't remember everything.)
>>
>> Wei.
>
> I tried with "commit e16435c95be86244bd92c5c26579bd4298aa65a6 
> (xen_disk: mark ioreq as mapped before unmapping in error case)" from 
> git://xenbits.xen.org/qemu-upstream-4.3-testing.git.
> There are only 4 commits difference between mine and your test.
> FWIK the only other difference is domUs kernel versions, and the msi 
> problem is probably a regression between kernel 2.6.32 and 3.2 (the 
> "older" domUs used in my tests was Precise with kernel 3.2).
> Tomorrow I'll try also with squeeze.

I tested with squeeze and with qemu 1.3.1, virtio net works also without 
pci=nomsi, so seems kernel regression about msi using xen (that make 
virtio devices not working) between versions 2.6.32 and 3.2.
Any idea about solve it?

>
> RIguardo invece l'altra regressione qemu tra il 4 e 22 luglio che da 
> errore xen mapcache usando virtio net puoi aiutarmi?
> Another question: the qemu 1.6 regression between july 4th-22nd 
> commits (qemu crash on domU kernel load with xen mapcache error with 
> virtio net), could you help me?
>
> Thanks for any reply.

I did another test about this qemu regression and I'm unable to decrease 
the range of commits :(