Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1773753] [NEW] virsh managed save fails with qemu version v2.12.0-813-g5a5c383b13-dirty on powerpc

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 09:12:21AM -0000, Satheesh Rajendran wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Host Env:
> IBM Power8 with Fedora28 base with compiled upstream kernel, qemu, libvirt.
> 
> Host Kernel: 4.17.0-rc5-00069-g3acf4e395260
> 
> qemu-kvm(5a5c383b1373aeb6c87a0d6060f6c3dc7c53082b):
> v2.12.0-813-g5a5c383b13-dirty
> 
> libvirt(4804a4db33a37f828d033733bc47f6eff5d262c3):
> 
> Guest Kernel: 4.17.0-rc7
> 
> Steps to recreate:
> Define a guest attached with above setup and start.
> # virsh start avocado-vt-vm1
> 
> guest console;...
> # uname -r
> 4.17.0-rc7
> address@hidden ~]# lscpu
> Architecture:        ppc64le
> Byte Order:          Little Endian
> CPU(s):              3
> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-2
> Thread(s) per core:  1
> Core(s) per socket:  1
> Socket(s):           3
> NUMA node(s):        1
> Model:               2.1 (pvr 004b 0201)
> Model name:          POWER8 (architected), altivec supported
> Hypervisor vendor:   KVM
> Virtualization type: para
> L1d cache:           64K
> L1i cache:           32K
> NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-2
> 
> 
> # virsh managedsave avocado-vt-vm1 
> 
> Domain avocado-vt-vm1 state saved by libvirt
> 
> # virsh list
>  Id    Name                           State
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> # virsh start avocado-vt-vm1 ----Hangs forever and vm state goes to
> paused.

Libvirt is using fd migration, right?  If so, I suspect this is the
same problem with the iotest failure, and the fix should be in a pull
request:

  Message-Id: <address@hidden>
  Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/2] migration: fix exec/fd migrations

Regards,

-- 
Peter Xu