Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.0 RC with Spice

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Rick Vernam (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2014 19:25:22 Rick Vernam wrote:
> > Looks like it's in Spice:

<snip old backtrace without symbols>

> > I'll see if I can build spice with debugging symbols and what not and write
> > back with findings. Are others have problems with Qemu 2.0 RCs & Spice?
> > 
> > Here is how I started qemu with gdb:
> > 
> > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice
> > TMPDIR=/home/rick/qemu/hds gdb --args /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu
> > host -enable-kvm \ -m 1536 -name Win7Pro64 -localtime -no-fd-bootchk -smp
> > cores=4 \
> > -pidfile /home/rick/qemu/hds/win7pro64.pid \
> > -drive file=/home/rick/qemu/hds/win7pro64.qed,if=virtio,index=0,snapshot=on
> > \ -vga qxl \
> > -net nic,model=virtio -net user \
> > -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> > \ -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
> > -device
> > virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.sp
> > ice.0 \ -spice port=1247,disable-ticketing \
> > -monitor telnet:localhost:12471,server,nowait \
> > -drive if=none,id=cd,file=/dev/sg1 \
> > -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
> > -device scsi-generic,drive=cd \
> > -balloon virtio \
> > -soundhw hda \
> > -device usb-ehci
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Rick
> > 
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2014 15:22:04 Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * Rick Vernam (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > > I have been trying out the 2.0 RCs, and I've noticed that when I use
> > > > spice
> > > > qemu aborts when I reboot the VM.  This occurs on Win XP guest, Win 7
> > > > (64-bit) guest and Win 8 (64-bit) guest.
> > > > Is this something that anybody else experiences?
> > > > I don't care to divert anybody's energy if this a spice thing - how best
> > > > to
> > > > determine this?
> > > 
> > > You say qemu aborts; can you get a backtrace and the abort message?
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > > --
> > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
> 
> sorry, for top posting my last response.  and also sorry for not noticing 
> that I had let the binaries get stripped previously.
> Here with qemu-system-x86_64 not stripped, and spice lib not stripped:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff211eae5 in spice_char_device_write_to_device (dev=0x55555687bcf0) 
> at char_device.c:443
> 443         sif = SPICE_CONTAINEROF(dev->sin->base.sif, 
> SpiceCharDeviceInterface, base);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff211eae5 in spice_char_device_write_to_device 
> (dev=0x55555687bcf0) at char_device.c:443
> #1  0x00007ffff211fd81 in spice_char_device_start (dev=0x55555687bcf0) at 
> char_device.c:798
> #2  0x00007ffff2171f95 in spice_server_vm_start (s=0x5555561d4360) at 
> reds.c:4520
> #3  0x00005555556a1119 in qdev_reset_one (dev=<optimized out>, 
> opaque=<optimized out>) at hw/core/qdev.c:240
> #4  0x00005555556a0958 in qbus_walk_children (bus=0x5555567576a0, 
> pre_devfn=0x0, pre_busfn=0x0, post_devfn=0x5555556a1100 <qdev_reset_one>, 
> post_busfn=0x55555569f060 <qbus_reset_one>, opaque=0x0) at hw/core/qdev.c:369
> #5  0x00005555556a0878 in qdev_walk_children (dev=0x55555677c0b0, 
> pre_devfn=0x0, pre_busfn=0x0, post_devfn=0x5555556a1100 <qdev_reset_one>, 
> post_busfn=0x55555569f060 <qbus_reset_one>, opaque=0x0) at hw/core/qdev.c:403
> #6  0x00005555556a0958 in qbus_walk_children (bus=0x5555567459c0, 
> pre_devfn=0x0, pre_busfn=0x0, post_devfn=0x5555556a1100 <qdev_reset_one>, 
> post_busfn=0x55555569f060 <qbus_reset_one>, opaque=0x0) at hw/core/qdev.c:369
> #7  0x00005555557d717a in qemu_devices_reset () at vl.c:1867
> #8  qemu_system_reset (address@hidden) at vl.c:1880
> #9  0x00005555555f9e2f in main_loop_should_exit () at vl.c:2015
> #10 main_loop () at vl.c:2055
> #11 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) 
> at vl.c:4507
> 
> 
> Thanks, and what can I do to provide more info?

I don't know much about spice; I've added address@hidden to cc who knows spice.

Can you clarify a bit more about which spice version you're using and anything 
else
about your setup that might be relevant.

Dave
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK