On 27/08/14 07:15, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Hi all,
When creating a qemu-system-sparc64 machine with a virtio interface,
both QEMU 2.1.0 and current git master emit the above warning:
$ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -drive file=/tmp/file.txt,if=virtio,index=0
-nographic
qemu-system-sparc64: -drive file=/tmp/file.txt,if=virtio,index=0: unable
to init msix vectors to 2
OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
kernel cmdline
CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Aug 26 2014 12:48
Type 'help' for detailed information
Trying disk:a...
No valid state has been set by load or init-program
0 >
Is this harmless? At a superficial level, the interface seems to work if
you boot with a virtio-enabled -kernel.
Ping? A quick look at the source code indicates that MSI setup for
virtio is only performed if nvectors > 0, and since the default value is
2 then this is why the error appears on the console.
From reading the relevant datasheets, I see no mention of MSI
interrupts which makes me think they may not be supported by the Sun
sabre bridge that QEMU emulates.
ATB,
Mark.
