Vadim, My colleague will give you more information we found here. Qemu somehow in this particular case returns a wrong bar0 value. In working case, the bar0 is 0xc140. But in failure case, the bar0 is changed to 0xC141.
-----Original Message----- From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:03 PM To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; 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 On Monday, March 19, 2012 01:16:56 PM Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote: > Vadim, > > What do you mean "qemu configuration string"? Is it the build > configuration or command line option? Please let me know it. Thanks. > > Sorry, that was ambiguous. I need the command line in order to reproduce the problem. Cheers, Vadim. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 5:17 PM > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > 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 > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 08:29:41 AM Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 wrote: > > Hi Vadim, > > > > We recently encountered with many issues with new Windows Virio > > > > driver running on Qemu 1.0 and Qemu 1.0.50. My initial investigation > > was found that the new Viro driver could not be installed before > > Qemu 1.0.50. But my colleague right now can install the new Virio > > driver on Qemu 1.0. Such a finding is quite a bit surprise to me. > > Does Windows refuse to install a new driver or just stuck? > > > When we tested the new Virio driver on both Qemu 1.0 and 1.0.50, we > > > > found the Virio driver failed to work after disabling and enabling > > the driver a few times. However, the failure case largely depends on > > the type of machine. On my machine, I did not see such a problem. > > Are you running SMP or UP guest? What about others? > > > Here are a few of questions that I want to clarify for us. > > > > 1. Can the new VirIO driver be installed prior Qemu 1.0.50(the > > > > current head branch)? > > Yes, as far as I know. > > > 2. Does your QA team verify the new VirtIo driver prior Qemu 1.0.50? > > Do you recommend us to do such a test or debugging? > > Our QA test our drivers on top of RHEL only. I don't know exactly what > is the difference between our latest qemu-kvm and upstream > > > 3. When we disable and enable the new VirtIO driver several times > > on > > > > either Qemu 1.0 or Qemu 1.0.50, VirtIo driver failed to work after > > enabling the new VirtIO driver. What we found in this particular > > case is that the VirtIO driver was blocked inside the DPC routine where the > > driver tried to ACK the interrupt. Based on my colleague's > > observation, > > the > > > I/O read from DPC was not trapped by the front-end driver(a Linux > > driver implemented for VirtIO)? Do you have any idea why this could > > happen? Also, did you find similar issues by you or your > > QA? > > I know for sure that we have at least one race condition described here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750773 > Hence, my question is whether your guest is SMP or UP? > > > Please let us know these as soon as possible since we have a big > > > > trouble to make the Virio driver(new and old driver) work stably in > > any Qemu official release including Qemu 1.0.50. > > I'm going to push some changes, mostly related to the above bug. > The DPC problem is completely new for me. Please post your qemu > configuration string and I'll try to reproduce it and investigate this > problem. > > Best regards, > Vadim. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:47 PM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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'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? > > > > Best regards, > > Vadim. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <charles.t...@cloudena.com> > > To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <vroze...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "Michael Roth" <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" > > <stefa...@gmail.com>, spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, "Alex > > Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <alex.hu...@cloudena.com>, "Alon Levy" > > <al...@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Paul > > Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" <paul...@cloudena.com> 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:06 AM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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= > > 0x > > 5.0x > > 0 -drive > > file=/home/vrozenfe/work/images/win7.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 > > ,f > > orma > > t=qcow2 -device > > ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootinde > > x= > > 1 > > -netdev tap,id=hostnet0 -device > > e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=22:3A:40:3F:2F:12,bus=pci.0,multif > > un > > ctio > > n=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=cha > > nn > > el0, > > name=com.redhat.spice.0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -device > > virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0 > > x0 -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" <charles.t...@cloudena.com> > > To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <vroze...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "Michael Roth" <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" > > <stefa...@gmail.com>, spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, "Alex > > Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <alex.hu...@cloudena.com>, "Alon Levy" > > <al...@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Paul > > Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" <paul...@cloudena.com> 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 2:14 AM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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" <charles.t...@cloudena.com> > > To: "Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部" <charles.t...@cloudena.com>, "Vadim > > Rozenfeld" <vroze...@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Roth" > > <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefa...@gmail.com>, > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, > > "Alex Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <alex.hu...@cloudena.com>, "Alon Levy" > > <al...@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Paul > > Lu-盧偉智-研究發展部" <paul...@cloudena.com> 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; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:48 PM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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" <charles.t...@cloudena.com> > > To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <vroze...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "Michael Roth" <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" > > <stefa...@gmail.com>, spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, "Alex > > Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <alex.hu...@cloudena.com>, "Alon Levy" > > <al...@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> 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/v > > ir > > tio- > > win-prewhql-0.1-15-sources.zip > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vadim Rozenfeld [mailto:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:25 PM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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" <charles.t...@cloudena.com> > > To: "Vadim Rozenfeld" <vroze...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "Michael Roth" <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" > > <stefa...@gmail.com>, spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, "Alex > > Huang-黃必賢-研究發展部" <alex.hu...@cloudena.com>, "Alon Levy" > > <al...@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:39 PM > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:58 PM > > > To: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部 > > > Cc: Michael Roth; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; > > > 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:vroze...@redhat.com] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 4:57 AM > > > > To: Michael Roth > > > > Cc: Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-研究發展部; Stefan Hajnoczi; > > > > spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org; 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.moni > > > > > > to > > > > > > r, > > > > > > 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, > > > > > > fo > > > > > > rm > > > > > > at > > > > > > =r > > > > > > aw -device > > > > > > ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0, > > > > > > bo > > > > > > ot > > > > > > 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=charchannel > > > > > > 0, > > > > > > 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,ad > > > > > > dr > > > > > > =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/ > > > > > bi > > > > > n/ > > > > > > > > > > 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.
