Re: [Qemu-devel] q35, usb-ehci1, and Mac OS X boot problems

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> First, what works:
> 
> With the following command line (usb items on the last line):
> 
> bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu core2duo \

>   -device ich9-usb-uhci1 -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse

Just uhci.  Ok.

> If I replace:
> 
>   -device ich9-usb-uhci1 -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse
> 
> with the generic default:
> 
>   -usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse
> 
> I get a hang at boot time. OS X (SnowLeopard) prints the following
> USB-related warning/error to its console:
> 
> USBF: 2.557 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff80056c5000]::CheckSleepCapability - 
> controller will be unloaded across sleep

Seems macos doesn't like something in our ehci emulation ...

Can you send a trace with all ehci tracepoints enabled?

> Note how both the keyboard and mouse are now under 'ehci1', rather than
> under one of the 'uhci' entries, e.g. uhci1 like in the working example
> earlier on.

That is normal for a companion controller setup.  For the guest usb 1.1
devices will show up at one of the uhci companion controllers
nevertheless (lsusb in linux guests will show that).

cheers,
  Gerd