Re: [Qemu-devel] Headsup: windows virtio networking does not work on current git

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

On 02/05/2013 11:49 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 09:58 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Vadim, can you please describe in a bit more details what the actual
> > > issue
> > > here is, from the windows or windows driver point of view?  Is it really
> > > that bad that the config space size changed?  Why it has this effect?
> > > Is this size specified in the inf file somehow?  Just for us to actually
> > > understand the issue?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > /mjt
> >
> > This should be educational:
> > https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/10413d2bbef295cc0e0e75131147793ccc382155
>
> I guess I chose a bad timing to do test grid maintenance. I've stopped
> the grid last Thursday to upgrade the test code, then when I resumed
> operations yesterday, I was checking out on the qemu.git results.
>
> I found out that all Windows tests were failing due to a failure to
> start the virtio driver. Attached there's an ogg video of what happens.
> I found this thread and then things make sense...
>
> Well, anyway, once a fix is in place, it'll be easy to verify whether
> the problem is solved. I'll keep checking on this thread for a fix and
> report whether it was successful or not.

Just reporting that the latest build of the internal virtio drivers 
(-54) passed all tests on latest qemu.git, no more networking problems.

Kernel (kvm.git):

02/06 18:31:29 INFO |       git:0153| git commit ID is 
949db153b6466c6f7cad5a427ecea94985927311 (tag kvm-3.8-1-13793-g949db15)

QEMU (qemu.git):

02/06 18:46:06 INFO |       git:0153| git commit ID is 
5f876756c57c15f5e14d4136fc432b74f05f082b (tag v1.4.0-rc0-15-g5f87675)

Windows Drivers build: 54 (Iso built automatically during the night).