Re: KVM console dying

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:24:00PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >From: Alan Pevec <apevec@redhat.com>
> >
> >  
> >>- add serial console, workaround for F9 livecd KVM guest dying with 
> >>standard console only.
> >> VNC console will go blank but node will continue to boot
> >>    
> >
> >With only console=tty qemu-kvm dies when, AFAICT from udevdebug output, 
> >start_udev is processing console rules.
> >
> >Here is backtrace:
> >
> >Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> >
> >[Switching to Thread -1208993168 (LWP 16163)]
> >
> >0x0095337d in memmove () from /lib/libc.so.6
> >
> >Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install SDL.i386 alsa-lib.i386 
> >glibc.i686 gnutls.i386 libgcrypt.i386 libgpg-error.i386 zlib.i386
> >  
> 
> The info that's needed is what the size of the vnc frame buffer is.  My 
> suspicion is that we're racing.  A VCPU IO operation will trigger the 
> bit blit which will cause this vnc_copy path to hit.  However, the VNC 
> server is not thread safe so if the IO thread is running simultaneously, 
> very bad things could happen.
> 
> Is this with standard KVM or your lock break-up patches?

Standard KVM.

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