Re: guest suspend/resume & virtio: vring errors

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On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:47:25PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 09.07.2011 13:17, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:02:54PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >> I tried suspend/resume cycle for a linux guest
> >> today, with 100% failure result.  There are 2
> > Good. It works as expect :) Linux virtio drivers do not support PM.
> 
> This means that neither in-guest suspend/resume nor
> qemu-kvm migrate-to-file (which fails for a different
> reason I'm trying to debug now) works.  Which is very
> unfortunate.
> 
Migration to file should work, or, at least, is a different problem.
It does not require guest cooperation.

> >> With e1000 instead of virtio-net-pci, the suspend
> >> does not complete - guest kernel freezes after the
> >> message "Suspending console(s)" and does not respond
> >> (but does not eat 100% CPU either) - the same as for
> >> older guest kernel.
> >>
> >> Has anyone succeeded suspend/resume cycle?
> >>
> > Yes, but Linux and suspend/resume are not best friends. Sometimes it
> > works by mistake, but next merged patch fixes it and suspend/resume
> > returns to its normal broken state.
> 
> Lovelylovely.
> 
> It does not work with any version of windows I tried, too
> (which is winXP, win7 32 and win7 64bits).  Windows enters
> an endless loop with a black screen during suspend (eating
> 100% CPU time).
> 
Heh. Is this S4 or S3 suspend resume? Looks like recent breakage.
The only knows problem to me is in win7/2008 S3 resume + net.

> What's wrong/broken in linux?  Can it be fixed?
> 
Complete lack of regression testing.

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			Gleb.
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