reassign 494871 kvm tags 494871 + patch thanks Hello,
I've been using kvm to run "Olive"s for a while. This is a PC-based instance of Juniper's JUNOS operating system for routers, which again is based on FreeBSD. This means that any bugs most likely will apply to FreeBSD installations as well, but I can't provide a sample guest since the JUNOS software is commercially licensed. Older JUNOS releases are based on FreeBSD 4.10, while newer (JUNOS 8.5+) are based on FreeBSD 6.1. Since kvm-70 there has been problems with kvm and the newer FreeBSD 6.1 based releases. They have been running OK for a few hours but then just stopped responding both on the console and the qemu monitor. strace'ing has revealed an infinite loop of failed /dev/kvm accesses. All this while other guests on the same host have continued to work as expected. Now, I've been happily running kvm-69 while planning to debug this properly and report upstream as soon as I got enough time... But never actually got around to doing it. Therefore this complete lack of logs etc. Sorry about that. The point of this followup is that I tried enabling the native VDE support in kvm-72 and the problem went away! This means that this request is not just a feature wish, but actually fixes a bug. A bug which for me was serious enough that I couldn't use the lenny kvm package. I really hope there is some possibility of letting it slip through a hole in the ice :-) I'm attaching the rather obvious patch to simplify adding the feature. The patch is tested with kvm 72+dfsg-1. FYI, my kvm startup script used to do (I've of course removed "vdeq" now): nohup setsid vdeq kvm -m 128 -hda olive.img \ -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:aa:00:00:00:01,model=i82559er \ -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:aa:00:00:01:01,model=i82559er \ -net nic,vlan=2,macaddr=00:aa:00:00:02:01,model=i82559er \ -net nic,vlan=3,macaddr=00:aa:00:e1:03:01,model=e1000 \ -net nic,vlan=4,macaddr=00:aa:00:e1:04:01,model=e1000 \ -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl,port=10 \ -net vde,vlan=1,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl,port=11 \ -net vde,vlan=2,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl,port=12 \ -net vde,vlan=3,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl,port=13 \ -net vde,vlan=4,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl,port=14 \ -nographic -serial mon:telnet:192.168.3.1:2001,server,nowait \ -monitor null -pidfile olive.pid >> olive.log 2>&1 & BTW: I believe this is a kvm request and has nothing to do with kvm-source, so I'm reassigning it to kvm. Hope that's OK. Bjørn
diff -urN ../kvm-72+dfsg.orig/debian/control kvm-72+dfsg/debian/control --- ../kvm-72+dfsg.orig/debian/control 2008-08-19 12:21:02.000000000 +0200 +++ kvm-72+dfsg/debian/control 2008-08-19 12:45:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), pkg-config, quilt (>= 0.40), autotools-dev, bzip2, uuid-dev, zlib1g-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, libasound2-dev, libgnutls-dev, libncurses5-dev, nasm, texi2html, bcc, iasl, device-tree-compiler [powerpc], - etherboot [i386 amd64] + etherboot [i386 amd64], libvdeplug2-dev Standards-Version: 3.8.0.0 Homepage: http://kvm.qumranet.com/ Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/kvm.git;a=summary diff -urN ../kvm-72+dfsg.orig/debian/rules kvm-72+dfsg/debian/rules --- ../kvm-72+dfsg.orig/debian/rules 2008-08-19 12:21:02.000000000 +0200 +++ kvm-72+dfsg/debian/rules 2008-08-19 12:45:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ config.status: configure dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. - ./configure --prefix=/usr + ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vde build-arch: patch config.status build-arch-stamp
