Re: [Autotest] [PATCH] Add a kvm subtest -- pci_hotplug, which supports both Windows OS and Linux OS.

[Yolkfull Chow <yzhou@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:03:10AM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Yolkfull Chow<yzhou@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Yaniv, following is the output from Windows guest:
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6001
> >>> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation.
> >>> On computer: WIN-Q18A9GP5ECI
> >>>
> >>> Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
> >>>
> >>> DiskPart has encountered an error: The media is write protected.
> >>> See the System Event Log for more information.
> >>>
> >>> Have you ever seen this error during format newly added SCSI block
> >>> device?
> >>>
> >>> The contents of my diskpart script file:
> >>> ---
> >>> select disk 1
> >>>
> >>
> >> online
> >>
> >>> create partition primary
> >>> exit
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I didn't use a script - nor have I ever hot-plugged a disk, but it does
> >> seem to happen to me as well now - the 2nd disk (the first is IDE) is
> >> indeed seems to be R/O.
> >> I'll look into it.
> >
> > Hi Lucas, did you notice this problem happened on Windows guest? What's
> > your opinion about the patch pci_hotplug,send or wait?
> 
> Hi Yolkfull, sorry for the delay answering. Yes, I did see the problem
> on windows guests. About the test itself, it looks good and I am
> making more tests before integrating it. Interestingly I tried it with
> older fedora versions and lspci doesn't seem to be able to recognize
> the newly added devices. High time we add step files and data for F10
> and F11 on the default config file.
> 
> > I think I can still send the patch for now, and just use 'detail disk' which doesn't format the newly added
> > disk in diskpart script. As soon as we have a solution, I can submit a
> > patch to fix it. Moreover, nic_virtio and block_virtio for Windows section will be
> > disabled in config file as well since both drivers don't work well now.
> 
> Ok, if you have an updated patch, please send it. Let's try to get all
> the problems addressed as soon as possible.
> 
> Thanks for your work on this!

Ok, I will post it here soon after I finish current case. Thanks, Lucas. :-)


Regards,