On 12/8/21 12:09, Peter Krempa wrote
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 10:30:27 +0000, Philipp Klocke wrote:Hi, the command virsh qemu-monitor-command ubuntu_vm --hmp --cmd "info tlb" fails with "error: Unable to encode message payload". I found a bugtracker entry for a similiar error [1], but I don't if this is the same error (message too large). I also don't know how large an info tlb message is. Preferably I would not have to recompile libvirt just to issue this monitor command..Libvirt unfortunately limits strings to 4MiB: const REMOTE_STRING_MAX = 4194304; And the reply from qemu-monitor-command is a single string. Now internally we process JSON messages up to 10 MiB so one could argue that we should increase the size for the 'qemu-monitor-command' reply up to 10MiB. This could be straightforward but it's questionable whether it's worth it.
Thanks for the clarification! I will try to go for the 2nd monitor then.
Then I thought about circumventing the error by connecting directly to the qemu monitor via netcat, but I found a thread [2] that says I cannot add my own "-monitor tcp:..." to the Qemu commandline arguments.IIRC at that point qemu wasn't able to handle two monitor connections. At this point it is possible to have two concurrent connections to the montitor. Obviously things may break and you get to keep the pieces if it breaks. By adding: <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-qmp'/> <qemu:arg value='tcp:127.0.0.1:1235'/> </qemu:commandline>
When I add this to the config via virsh edit and then do a shutdown + reboot, I get a kernel panic. I put the corresponding dmesg log on gist: https://gist.github.com/klockeph/323f3e0d23a3254ef98a65fd7c8f5a1c
Out of curiousity, what do you specifically need 'info tlb' for?
I am currently investigating a performance issue where a Windows VM is very slow in accessing qemu ivshmem. So I want to get some better understanding how this memory is mapped into the VM (if it's paginated or continuous etc.), and hoped that info tlb could help me there. But I don't know what the output of the command is because it never ran. :D
I would prefer using a "real" profiler for this but the only one I tried so far (AMD uProf) crashed the VM with a bluescreen...
