[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Test report for xen-unstable and qemu-xen

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 14/08/2013 01:58, Kevin O'Connor ha scritto:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:26:43PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> Il 13/08/2013 13:09, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>> On 08/13/13 12:33, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>>>> Il 13/08/2013 12:04, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>>>> On 08/13/13 11:16, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>>>>>> Il 12/08/2013 17:04, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>>>>>> New issue:
>>>>>>> - domU not start with qemu 1.5.1 and more that 2 gb of ram:
>>>>>>>     tested on w7 64 bit domU with 4 gb of ram, with built-in qemu 1.3 it
>>>>>>> works,
>>>>>>>     while with qemu 1.5.1 doesn't (stops at the beginning, spice client
>>>>>>> show only the lines of seabios version and machine UUID;
>>>>>>>     qemu log show nothing more that 2 gb test), while with 2 gb of ram
>>>>>>> works also with qemu 1.5.1
>>>>>>> -------------------------
> [...]
>> I did another test disabling the usb controller: it didn't find any
>> bootable disk and tried to boot with pxe. I also tried F12 and it
>> reported an hard-disk size of 0 MB.
>> Configuration is correct because if I change the ram size to 2 GB
>> instead of 4, it starts correctly.
>> No additional information from qemu log.
>> I tried also seabios 1.7.2.2 and master from git, both with same result.
> It's not clear to me if this is a QEMU issue or SeaBIOS issue.  Can
> you arrange to run qemu with the following added to the command line:
>
> -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios
>
> and post the full log from a successful (2G) boot as well as the
> unsuccessful (4G) boot?
>
> -Kevin

Tried qemu 1.6.0-rc3, hvm domU does not start in any case because qemu 
crashes on start

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xl create /etc/xen/W7.cfg
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Parsing config from /etc/xen/W7.cfg
xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
   Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019ee88
   Modules:       0000000000000000->0000000000000000
   TOTAL:         0000000000000000->000000007f000000
   ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000
xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:
   4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200
   2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000003f7
   1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000
libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1313:device_model_spawn_outcome: domain 1 
device model: spawn failed (rc=-3)
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1079:domcreate_devmodel_started: device 
model did not start: -3
libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1344:libxl__destroy_device_model: Device Model 
already exited
------------------------------------

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/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-W7.log
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xc: error: linux_gnttab_set_max_grants: ioctl SET_MAX_GRANTS failed (22 
= Invalid argument): Internal error
xen be: qdisk-768: xc_gnttab_set_max_grants failed: Invalid argument
xc: error: linux_gnttab_set_max_grants: ioctl SET_MAX_GRANTS failed (22 
= Invalid argument): Internal error
xen be: qdisk-832: xc_gnttab_set_max_grants failed: Invalid argument
------------------------------------

Tried with qemu 1.4.2 and it works also with 4 gb of ram.
This ram regression seems to be introduced with qemu 1.5, and there is 
another regression more critical with qemu 1.6.

Tried to add seabios debug options to domU xl configuration file...

device_model_args=["-chardev 
stdio,id=seabios","-device","isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios"]

But it doesn't boot

/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-W7.log
qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev stdio,id=seabios: invalid option