Re: [Qemu-discuss] problem with virtio disk driver

[Aleksei]

> Thinking it might be because I had an old version of qemu I upgraded qemu to v 2.6.0. And got the same behavior.

libvirt 1.2.20 is also pretty old, current one is 2.3.0, maybe you can try that. This Embedded Linux you're running as host - which arch is it (ARM, x86_64 etc)?

--Regards, Aleksei

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From: Andrei Perietanu
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 4:47PM
To: Qemu-discuss
Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] problem with virtio disk driver

Just in case this sparks anyone's interest, the problem is still not solved, not even upgrading the host's kernel form 3.18 to 4.7.8

There is something I'm missing here..

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Andrei Perietanu <address@hidden> wrote:

I just ran into a problem I can't make heads or tails of, so I'm hoping to get some help here.

I have a custom built Embedded Linux as host, running qemu-kvm  1.1.2 and libvirt 1.2.20

I'm creating a domain with the following config:

<domain type='kvm'>

  <name>myVM</name>  

  <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>  

  <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu>  

  <os>

    <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type>

    <boot dev='hd'/>  

    <boot dev='cdrom'/>    

  </os>

  <features>

    <acpi/>

    <apic/>

  </features>

  <cpu mode='host-model'/>

  <clock offset='utc'>

    <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/>

    <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/>

    <timer name='hpet' present='no'/>

  </clock>

  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>

  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>

  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>  

  <devices>

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>

      <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>

      <source file='custom.iso'/>

      <readonly/>

      

    </disk>

    <disk type='file' device='disk'>

      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>

      <source file='/path/to/vdisk.img'/>

      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>      

    </disk>

    <controller type='pci' model='pci-root'/>

    <controller type='usb'/>

    <controller type='ide'/>

   <interface type='bridge'>

      <source bridge='virbr0'/>      

      <model type='virtio'/>

    </interface>

   

    <serial type='pty'>

      <target port='0'/>

    </serial>

    <console type='pty'>

      <target type='serial' port='0'/>

    </console>

    <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>

    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>

    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/>

    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/>

    <video>

      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'/>

    </video>

    <watchdog model='i6300esb' action=''/>

    <memballoon model='none'/>   

  </devices>

</domain>

Granted the guest OS I'm installing is again a custom Linux with some software running on top ..so It's not a well known OS...but I'm hoping that does not matter much. 

After installation I get all sorts of kernel panics and errors about services not being able to start. 

I tried the same thing on ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (host) which installed qemu-kvm 2.0.0 and libvirt 1.2.2

Same config xml, but this time it worked better -I was not getting the kernel panics.

The OS I'm installing does not support IDE disks, it needs a virtio disk.

I ran a second test, this time installing ubuntu 14.04 as the guest on both hosts (ubuntu vs embedded Linux) and again I had problems with which point to the virtio driver.

On the ubunutu host everyhing was fine 

On the Embedded Linux host, the installation failed early on with the error:

   The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in Virtual disk1, partition#1 (vda1) at / failed

If I switch to an ide disk drive instead of virtio, everything works fine.

Thinking it might be because I had an old version of qemu I upgraded qemu to v 2.6.0. And got the same behavior.

At this point I'm running out of ideas and I'm not sure what else I can try. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrei

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