[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1395217] Re: Networking in qemu 2.0.0 and beyond is not compatible with Open Solaris (Illumos) 5.11

[Eduardo Habkost]

It is runtime selectable using "-cpu ...,-x2apic" (as indicated by
Markus on qemu-devel).

First thing we need to find out is if it fails on the newest CPU model
that can be run in enforce mode.

So, assuming you are running on an Intel host CPU, it would be
interesting to test those CPU models in this order, until you have one
that actually boots:

 -cpu Broadwell,enforce
 -cpu Haswell,enforce
 -cpu SandyBridge,enforce
 -cpu Westmere,enforce
 -cpu Nehalem,enforce
 -cpu Penryn,enforce
 -cpu Conroe,enforce

Testing of:
  -cpu host
would be interesting, too.

If the latest CPU model (or -cpu host) have working networking, that
means Solaris (or QEMU NIC emulation code) doesn't like to see an old
CPU with x2apic enabled. If it doesn't work even using the latest CPU
model (and -cpu host), that means Solaris (or QEMU NIC emulation)
doesn't like the x2apic implementation of KVM at all (and that could
mean a Solaris bug, a QEMU bug, or a KVM x2apic emulation bug).

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Title:
  Networking in qemu 2.0.0 and beyond is not compatible with Open
  Solaris (Illumos) 5.11

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  The networking code in qemu in versions 2.0.0 and beyond is non-
  functional with Solaris/Illumos 5.11 images.

  Building 1.7.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.1.2,and 2.2.0rc1with the following
  standard Slackware config:

  # From Slackware build tree . . . 
  ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
    --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var \
    --enable-gtk \
    --enable-system \
    --enable-kvm \
    --disable-debug-info \
    --enable-virtfs \
    --enable-sdl \
    --audio-drv-list=alsa,oss,sdl,esd \
    --enable-libusb \
    --disable-vnc \
    --target-list=x86_64-linux-user,i386-linux-user,x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu 
\
    --enable-spice \
    --enable-usb-redir 

  
  And attempting to run the same VM image with the following command (or via 
virt-manager):

  macaddress="DE:AD:BE:EF:3F:A4"

  qemu-system-x86_64 nex4x -cdrom /dev/cdrom -name "Nex41" -cpu Westmere
  -machine accel=kvm -smp 2 -m 4000 -net nic,macaddr=$macaddress  -net 
bridge,br=b
  r0 -net dump,file=/usr1/tmp/<FILENAME> -drive file=nex4x_d1 -drive 
file=nex4x_d2
   -enable-kvm

  Gives success on 1.7.1, and a deaf VM on all subsequent versions.

  Notable in validating my config, is that a Windows 7 image runs
  cleanly with networking on *all* builds, so my configuration appears
  to be good - qemu just hates Solaris at this point.

  Watching with wireshark (as well as pulling network traces from qemu
  as noted above) it appears that the notable difference in the two
  configs is that for some reason, Solaris gets stuck arping for it's
  own interface on startup, and never really comes on line on the
  network.  If other hosts attempt to ping the Solaris instance, they
  can successfully arp the bad VM, but not the other way around.

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