Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gary Hook (gary.h...@nimboxx.com) wrote: > On 10/30/14, 5:03 AM, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > > >* Gary Hook (gary.h...@nimboxx.com) wrote: > >> *Knock* *knock* *knock* Is this thing on? > > > >Yes - but only by luck did I notice this; it's normally better > >to reply to the thread that po

Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Hook
On 10/30/14, 5:03 AM, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: >* Gary Hook (gary.h...@nimboxx.com) wrote: >> *Knock* *knock* *knock* Is this thing on? > >Yes - but only by luck did I notice this; it's normally better >to reply to the thread that posted a patch and cc the authors! Well, that depends upon

Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Hook
On 10/30/14, 3:08 PM, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: >>I posted another thread asking about migration failure due to a copy >> taking too long, but got no traction. In the case where the problem >>raises >> its head we have turned tunneling on. A tiny VM (<2GB in size) migrates >> fine using t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gary Hook (gary.h...@nimboxx.com) wrote: > > > On 10/30/14, 3:08 PM, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > > >>I posted another thread asking about migration failure due to a copy > >> taking too long, but got no traction. In the case where the problem > >>raises > >> its head we have turned tunn

Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-30 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gary Hook (gary.h...@nimboxx.com) wrote: > *Knock* *knock* *knock* Is this thing on? Yes - but only by luck did I notice this; it's normally better to reply to the thread that posted a patch and cc the authors! > I applied the 47 pieces of the recent postcopy patch to 2.1.2 and am > poking arou

[Qemu-devel] Bug in recent postcopy patch

2014-10-29 Thread Gary Hook
*Knock* *knock* *knock* Is this thing on? I applied the 47 pieces of the recent postcopy patch to 2.1.2 and am poking around. An attempt to migrate results in a NULL pointer dereference in savevm.c. Here is info from gdb: Most of qemu_savevm_state_pending() succeeds, until it gets to the end. He