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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: brak@gameservers.com
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guests wont start with 15 pcie-root-port devices
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:53:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YY6qJt0lXEc2SAtc@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abff2095-9ac8-c115-bc7f-6a19b9defe51@gameservers.com>

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:35:07PM -0500, Brian Rak wrote:
> In 6.1, a guest with 15 empty pcie-root-port devices will not boot properly
> - it just hangs on "Guest has not initialized the display (yet).".  As soon
> as I remove the last pcie-root-port, the guest begins starting up normally. 

Yes, QEMU 6.1 has a regression

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/641 


> commit e2a6290aab578b2170c1f5909fa556385dc0d820
> Author: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 2 12:00:57 2021 +0300
> 
>     hw/pcie-root-port: Fix hotplug for PCI devices requiring IO
> 
> Although I can't say I really understand why that commit triggered it.

It caused the firmware to always allocate I/O space for every port
and there's limited total I/O space, so it runs out at 15 devices.

Regards,
Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-12 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-12 17:35 Guests wont start with 15 pcie-root-port devices Brian Rak
2021-11-12 17:53 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2021-11-12 20:51   ` Igor Mammedov
2021-11-15 16:57     ` Brian Rak
2021-11-16 19:41       ` Igor Mammedov

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