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

[David Jaša]

Vadim Rozenfeld píše v St 08. 02. 2012 v 02:47 -0500:
> I'm afraid to give you any recommendations regarding QEMU stability.
> I usually work with qemu-kvm repository. But we are always doing WHQL 
> process on RHEL platform only.
> 
> Maybe someone from the SPICE team can comment on your question?
> 

We also focus our testing on RHEL components. We have done some new
feature testing on Fedora with virt-preview repo:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/jforbes/virt-preview/
but it still says nothing about qemu stability for your purposes and the
qemu version is still 1.0.

David

> Best regards,
> Vadim.    
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>
> To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael Roth" <address@hidden>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Alon Levy" 
> <address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>, "Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" 
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:39:22 AM
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> Thanks. I tested Windows guest OS driver the over qemu-kvm-devel 1.0.50 from 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git and it worked.
> The latest Windows guest driver from (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) 
> seems to have to work with Qemu 1.0.50. My previous test ran over Qemu 1.0 
> and that was why it failed to work.
> 
> As you mentioned, the latest driver from (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) 
> is much more stable than the old one. But those drivers must work with Qemu 
> 1.0.50 which was not verified to be stable. Do you think Qemu 1.0.50 is 
> stable to be used? Please give us a recommendation.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:06 AM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel; Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> I have tried to reproduce the problem several times without success.
> 
> QEMU:
> QEMU 1.0.50 from git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git ,and qemu-kvm-devel 1.0.50 from 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git
> 
> My guest info:
> OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 
> OS Version:                6.1.7600 N/A Build 7600
> 
> QEMU command line:
> sudo /home/vrozenfe/work/upstream/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 
> 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name SERIAL -uuid 
> d9388815-ddd3-c38e-33c2-a9d5fcc7a775 -monitor stdio -rtc base=localtime 
> -device 
> virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5.0x0 
> -drive 
> file=/home/vrozenfe/work/images/win7.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2
>  -device 
> ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 
> -netdev tap,id=hostnet0 -device 
> e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=22:3A:40:3F:2F:12,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 -device 
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0x0 -cdrom 
> /home/vrozenfe/work/virtio-win-1.4.0.iso -snapshot -enable-kvm
> 
> Drivers:
> Both, MS signed from RHEL6.2 virtio-win RPM, as well as compiled by myself 
> with the sources from our internal repository (which contains absolutely the 
> same code as in Yan's repository). 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>
> To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael Roth" <address@hidden>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Alon Levy" 
> <address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>, "Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" 
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 3:08:55 PM
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> I did the same test again today and no luck to made it work.
> Let us what you find since we might have missed some points when we did the 
> test.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 2:14 AM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel; Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Thanks,
> I'll check this problem.
> Vadim.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>
> To: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Vadim Rozenfeld" 
> <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael Roth" <address@hidden>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Alon Levy" 
> <address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>, "Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" 
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 5:39:26 AM
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> We tested the free build driver on 32-bit Windows 7 and the symptom was the 
> same. In other words, the latest driver source from 
> https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/ is buggy and it was not workable at all.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:01 PM
> To: 'Vadim Rozenfeld'
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel; Paul Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> I downloaded the latest Windows guest driver code from 
> (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) and built the test binary driver code.
> When I tested the release build Vioserial driver on 64-bit Windows 7, the 
> driver seemed to wait for something to happen and the update driver Windows 
> dialog simply just stayed in busy state. Finally, the Windows system entered 
> a busy loop. However, if I tested the debugging build driver, the driver 
> could be installed. But it took for a long time to complete.
> 
> Our installed Qemu is 1.0. Is there Qemu build requirement so that we can 
> verify the vioserial driver? From my test, the latest code from 
> (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/) seemed to be worst than the one we tested 
> before. Let me know if we did anything wrong.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:48 PM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> This code is slightly buggy.
> Please try Yan's repository
> at github (https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/).
> I believe that the most critical changes have been merged already by Yan into 
> this public repository.
> I will ask to update binaries and sources at fedoraproject site as well.
> 
> Best regards,
> Vadim. 
>   
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>
> To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael Roth" <address@hidden>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Alon Levy" 
> <address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:25:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> We downloaded the driver source from the following website.
> ===========================================================
> wget --no-check-certificate 
> https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-15-sources.zip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:25 PM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Just to be sure that we are on the same page:
> could you tell me about the origin of the source?
> Is it the latest from the Yan's repository at github.com?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <address@hidden>
> To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Michael Roth" <address@hidden>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <address@hidden>, 
> address@hidden, "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <address@hidden>, "Alon Levy" 
> <address@hidden>, "qemu-devel" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:06:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> We built it from the driver source. Up to this moment, we always use the same 
> binary to test Qemu.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:39 PM
> To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon 
> Levy; qemu-devel
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS on Qemu 
> 0.15
> 
> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:33 +0800, Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote:
> > Vadim,
> > 
> > It is SMP system.
> What about vioserial driver itself? 
> did you build it from sources or is
> it one, available through RHEL channels?
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:58 PM
> > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部
> > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; address@hidden;
> > Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon Levy; qemu-devel
> > Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest OS 
> > on Qemu 0.15
> > 
> > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 09:41 +0800, Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote:
> > > Vadim,
> > > 
> > > I tested on Qemu 1.0.50. and found the VioSerial driver had problem to 
> > > install on 64-bit Win7 guest.
> > > During the driver installation, the system hung after the driver 
> > > being installed. After I rebooted the guest OS, the Vioserial driver 
> > > work. The hang system seemed to be found only during the driver 
> > > installation.
> > > 
> > On UP or SMP system?
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:address@hidden
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:57 AM
> > > To: Michael Roth
> > > Cc: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部; Stefan Hajnoczi; 
> > > address@hidden; Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部; Alon Levy; 
> > > qemu-devel
> > > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] Vioserial of Windows guest 
> > > OS on Qemu 0.15
> > > 
> > > 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,
> > > > > se rv er,nowait -mon
> > > > > chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline
> > > > > -rtc base=localtime
> > > > > -device
> > > > > virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,a
> > > > > dd
> > > > > r=
> > > > > 0x5.0x0 -drive
> > > > > file=/media/Images/Windows-XP.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,form
> > > > > at
> > > > > =r
> > > > > aw -device
> > > > > ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,boot
> > > > > in
> > > > > de
> > > > > x=1
> > > > > -netdev tap,fd=17,id=hostnet0
> > > > > -device
> > > > > rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:e8:dc:b1,bus=pci.0,
> > > > > mu
> > > > > lt
> > > > > ifunction=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
> > > > > =c
> > > > > ha
> > > > > nnel0,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=0
> > > > > x4
> > > > > .0
> > > > > x0
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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