[Qemu-devel] Re: [BUG] Migration broken by "e1000: port to vmstate"

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Juan Quintela wrote:
> Pierre Riteau <Pierre.Riteau@irisa.fr> wrote:
>> e482dc3eaac43f88beea133843ae38c661262e97 breaks migration of a VM using an e1000 device (which is the default...).
>> Origin host is Debian Lenny 32-bits, destination host is Fedora 12 32-bit. Guest is running Debian Lenny 32-bit.
>> Symtoms: origin finishes migration correctly, but destination prints "load of migration failed" and the VM is stopped.
>>
>> This is because the origin closed the connexion, so qemu_fill_buffer reads a buffer with len == 0, which is treated as an error later (f->has_error = 1).
>> Reverting e482dc3eaac43f88beea133843ae38c661262e97 fixes the problem.
> 
> Do you use --enable-kvm?  That could explain it.
> 

Confirmed here - the hard way, ie. after debugging a while on my own
patches. My scenario is default command line + -enable-kvm, migration to
file (exec:cat), then restore from that file. Restore fails while
reading the e1000 state with EOF.

> I will take at that two bugs this week.  I tested everything on 64bit
> hosts.

Any news on this?

Jan

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