[Bug 1856834] Re: Virtio broken in qemu ppc in 4.2.0 and other versions

From: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@vivier.eu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Bug 1856834] Re: Virtio broken in qemu ppc in 4.2.0 and other versions
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:06:20 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <157674638106.28116.4166697405124816238.malone@chaenomeles.canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 157666458990.14847.6716769636962803095.malonedeb@wampee.canonical.com

Could you provide the full qemu command line?

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Title:
  Virtio broken in qemu ppc in 4.2.0 and other versions

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  The same qemu -M mpc... command that works on qemu-system-ppc version
  2.8.0 freezes guest on bootup and shows error for qemu-system-ppc
  version 4.2.0release and 4.19dirtygit:

  qemu-system-ppc: virtio-blk failed to set guest notifier (-24), ensure -accel kvm is set.
  qemu-system-ppc: virtio_bus_start_ioeventfd: failed. Fallback to userspace (slower).

  ends/freezes at:
  nbd: registered device at major 43
   vda:

  I'm using -drive file=/home/me/rawimage.dd,if=virtio and works fine in
  version 2.8.0 installed with apt-get install (Ubuntu 17.04) and also
  with 2.8.0 official release from git/github that I compiled/built
  myself. But both of the newer releases fail on the same exact machine
  same config.

  I also noticed that qemu-2.8.0 was fine with mtd but the newer ones I tried weren't, ie gave
  qemu-system-ppc: -drive if=mtd: machine type does not support if=mtd,bus=0,unit=0
  (but I removed -drive if=mtd since wasn't using it anyway)

  I also tried on windows but I think virtio doesn't work on windows
  hosts at all? On windows host it fails the same way, even version 2.12
  as well as 4.1.10...

  used:
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/... --enable-fdt --enable-kvm --enable-debug

  (basically all steps the same on same exact system same config, yet
  2.8.0 works fine whether apt-get installed or built from source while
  the others I built, 4.19/4.2.0 or 2.12/4.1.10(win) don't.)

  In case newer qemu versions act weird on various kernels, I did try with both vmlinuz-4.10.0-19-generic and vmlinuz-4.13.12-041312-generic (I didn't compile them but I can provide config-..files. This is on Ubuntu 17.04 x86_64 host emulating e500v2 cpm guest, ie -M mpc... GUEST kernel 2.6.32.44 which is why I can't use -M ppce500 instead..)
  tx
       ecs

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