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


From: Vadim Rozenfeld
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Headsup: windows virtio networking does not work on current git
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:08:28 +1100

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 20:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 02/02/2013 05:13 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> 02.02.2013 00:36, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>> Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> 02.02.2013 00:18, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >>>>> Just a heads-up for now, no real diagnostics or anything like that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Current git master (a9c87c586ba9ee290792a98dc126b2861b7f8b03), when 
> >>>>> booted
> >>>>> a windows guest, results in no virtio-net inside.  Neither winXP nor 
> >>>>> Win7,
> >>>>> neither older nor latest (22 Jan 2013) virtio-net drivers works.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Windows displays a yellow exclamation mark near the virtio-net device 
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> says it can't start the device (Code 10).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Linux guests work fine, quick test anyway.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cc'ing Jason since his virtio-net changes was last.  But I repeat: no
> >>>>> diagnostics as of yet, no bisection.
> >>>> Bisection was easy, since win works fine right before the multiqueue
> >>>> virtio-net series.  This is the first bad commit:
> >>> Adding Vadim and Michael.
> >>>
> >>> If you use -M pc-1.3 or explicitly disable multiqueue, does the driver 
> >>> work?
> >> Neither one of these nor both makes any visible difference.
> >> Neither does -M pc-1.1 (just in case).
> > Hrm, then it's very likely not a driver problem.  Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
> 
> Have a look at this issue. It was caused by multiqueue patch who adds a
> new field to virtio_net_cfg. Not sure multiqueue is the root cause since
> I also find even w/o multiqueue, adding any new field to virtio_net_cfg
> will break windows guest. Haven't had a clue on this, will continue
> investigate.

cc'ing Yan, our NDIS guy.
Thank you,
Vadim.
> >
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Anthony Liguori
> >>>
> >>>> commit fed699f9ca6ae8a0fb62803334cf46fa64d1eb91
> >>>> Author: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
> >>>> Date:   Wed Jan 30 19:12:39 2013 +0800
> >>>>
> >>>>       virtio-net: multiqueue support
> >>>>
> >>>>       This patch implements both userspace and vhost support for 
> >>>> multiple queue
> >>>>       virtio-net (VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ). This is done by introducing an array 
> >>>> of
> >>>>       VirtIONetQueue to VirtIONet.
> >>>>
> >>>>       Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
> >>>>       Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> >>>>
> >>>> After this commit, win guest (winXP and win7) shows yellow
> >>>> exclamation sign and is unable to start the device with
> >>>> code 10.
> >>>>
> >>>> FWIW.  I'm not sure it is a good idea to make a release with
> >>>> such a breakage, even rc0.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> /mjt
> >
> 





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