KVM freeze when using --serial

[Thomas Kittel <kittel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I already posted this problem to #kvm on freenode.

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The Scenario is as follows:

I got 2 VM processes in userspace.

The first is started with the parameter --monitor pty.
   => This results in a file /dev/pts/x in the host,
       (crw--w---- 1 kittel tty 136, 3 2010-04-07 15:51 /dev/pts/3 on 
my system)

Another VM is then started with the parameter --serial /dev/pts/3
   => This results in /dev/ttyS0 inside the second VM.

Both VMs are running debian lenny. The host (debian) uses qemu-kvm 0.12.3.
"startvms.sh start" is used to start the VMs.

Running the executable build from test.c in the second VM results in a 
freeze of this VM.
(The test.c included uses /dev/ttyS1 as /dev/ttyS0 is the VMs serial 
console in my setup.)
The process uses 100% CPU and is stuck in kvm_mutex_lock().

Trying to use the build in gdbserver didn´t work because it also locked.

Is there a way to tunnel one VMs monitor console to another VM?

Thanks Thomas




#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <signal.h>

#include <pthread.h>

void signal_handler(int signum){
	pthread_exit(NULL);
}

void *readFile(void * ptr){
	signal(SIGTERM, signal_handler);
	int fd;
	char buffer;
	fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDONLY);
	while(true){
		read(fd, &buffer, 1);
		printf("%c", buffer);
		fflush(stdout);
	}

	close(fd);
	pthread_exit(NULL);

}

int main(int argc, char** argv){
	pthread_t thread;

	pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &readFile, NULL);

	sleep(10);
		
	pthread_kill(thread, SIGTERM);
	pthread_join(thread, NULL);

}

Attachment: startvms.sh
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