Hi,

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 02:48:13PM -0500, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> I'm having an odd issue that i find hard to believe could be a
> bug, and not some kind of user error, but im at a loss for
> where else to look.

Looks like a bug or bad configuration between host/guest. Let's
see.

> when booting a linux ISO with QXL SPICE graphics, the boot
> hangs as soon as kernel modesetting kicks in. Tried with latest
> debian, fedora, and centos.  Sometimes it randomly works, but
> most often it does not. QXL / VGA VNC work fine. However if i
> wait a few minutes after starting the VM for the graphics to
> start, then there are no issues and i can install as usual.
> 
> So after install, i reboot, hangs on reboot right after
> graphics switch back to text mode with QXL SPICE, not with VNC.
> So i force power off, reboot, and wait a while for it to boot.
> If i did text only install, when i open a spice console it will
> hang after typing a few characters. If i did a graphical
> install then as long as i waited long enough for X to start,
> then it works perfectly fine.

From the logs of second email:

 | [    3.201725] [drm] Initialized qxl 0.1.0 20120117 for 0000:00:02.0 on 
minor 0

Quite old qxl? Would it be possible to update it? 0.1.5 was
released in 2016-12-19 [0], that's almost 5 years of bugfixing,
etc.

        
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/tags/xf86-video-qxl-0.1.5

> I tried to capture some logs, but since the whole guest OS
> hangs it's rather hard to pull off. I did see an occasional
> error about the mouse driver, so that's really all i have to go
> on.
> 
> As for the spice client, im using virt-viewer on windows 10
> x64, tried various versions of virt-viewer just to be sure, no
> change. I also have a large amount on windows guests with QXL
> SPICE. These all work with no issue.  Having guest agent
> installed in the linux guest seems to make no difference.
> 
> There are no out of the ordinary logs on the VDSM hosts, but i
> can provide anything you may need. It's not specific to any one
> host, i have 10 VM hosts in the cluster, they all do. They are
> westmere boxes if that makes a difference.
> 
> Any ideas on how i should approach this? VNC works well enough
> for text only linux guest, but not being able to reboot my GUI
> linux guests without also closing my spice connection is a
> small pain.

Maybe just updating the qxl would solve the issue but which
configuration you have set in regards to memory for qxl?

I see in the logs

 | [    3.163127] [drm] qxl: 16M of VRAM memory size
 | [    3.163127] [drm] qxl: 63M of IO pages memory ready (VRAM domain)
 | [    3.163128] [drm] qxl: 32M of Surface memory size

Not sure if driver is using UMS (old) or KMS mode on Debian...

        https://www.spice-space.org/multiple-monitors.html

> as far as ovirt versions im on the latest, this is a rather
> fresh install.  just set it up a few days ago, but i've been a
> long time ovirt user. I am using a squid spice proxy if that
> makes a difference.

Cheers,
Victor

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