Activity log for bug #584048

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-05-22 00:23:50 Billy Charlton bug added bug
2010-06-02 09:38:15 Thierry Carrez kvm (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2010-06-02 09:38:15 Thierry Carrez kvm (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2010-06-02 09:39:50 Thierry Carrez affects kvm (Ubuntu) qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
2010-06-26 15:34:26 Frank Groeneveld qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed
2010-07-13 12:37:12 topaz2 bug added subscriber topaz2
2010-07-20 10:17:38 Dustin Kirkland  qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): assignee Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
2010-07-20 10:20:49 Dustin Kirkland  qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2010-07-21 20:28:10 Paolo Maero attachment added interfaces http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52283300/interfaces
2010-07-23 20:28:21 Murray Fox bug added subscriber Murray Fox
2010-07-27 08:34:51 Sergey Svishchev bug watch added https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571991
2010-07-27 15:09:38 Sergey Svishchev bug added subscriber Sergey Svishchev
2010-07-27 19:50:59 Murray Fox removed subscriber Murray Fox
2010-08-20 07:23:19 Frank Groeneveld qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed
2010-08-20 07:23:58 Frank Groeneveld nominated for series Ubuntu Hardy
2010-08-20 07:23:58 Frank Groeneveld nominated for series Ubuntu Lucid
2010-08-21 11:10:54 Santi Manninen bug added subscriber Santi Manninen
2010-08-26 07:48:41 Hark bug added subscriber Hark
2010-08-26 12:02:34 Thierry Carrez bug task added qemu-kvm (Fedora)
2010-08-26 12:03:19 Thierry Carrez qemu-kvm (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Triaged
2010-08-26 12:04:08 Thierry Carrez nominated for series Ubuntu Maverick
2010-08-26 12:04:08 Thierry Carrez bug task added qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Maverick)
2010-08-26 12:42:03 Thierry Carrez bug added subscriber Thierry Carrez
2010-09-02 07:43:54 Shrenik bug task added opensuse
2010-09-02 09:49:10 Thierry Carrez tags server-mrs
2010-09-07 18:13:41 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Maverick): status Triaged Fix Released
2010-09-07 18:18:38 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Maverick): status Fix Released Fix Committed
2010-09-08 14:23:07 Thierry Carrez bug task added qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid)
2010-09-08 14:31:38 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid): status New Incomplete
2010-09-08 14:32:04 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Maverick): status Fix Committed Invalid
2010-09-16 10:54:11 Alex bug added subscriber Alex
2010-09-23 03:16:16 Shrenik opensuse: status New Invalid
2010-11-11 15:31:00 Tais P. Hansen bug added subscriber Tais Plougmann Hansen
2011-02-17 15:03:19 codec bug added subscriber codec
2011-04-05 13:38:16 Trevor Sharpe bug added subscriber Trevor Sharpe
2011-04-05 19:41:13 Serge Hallyn description Binary package hint: kvm Serious networking problems with KVM running a Windows XP x64 host using bridged networking. This may be a KVM bug, or a bridged-networking or ethernet driver bug; I unfortunately don't have the skills to tell the difference but will do what I can to help pinpoint the problem. My Setup: - Lucid 64bit installed on dual quad-core (Intel) Dell Precision R710, 32Gb RAM. - One KVM instance running Windows XP x64 with 16Gb RAM, using bridged networking. Symptoms occur with both standard "-net nic" KVM network drivers (rtl8139?) and virtio network drivers on Windows. Either way I am also using "-net tap" so I can get out to the real network. - I'm starting KVM from the command line instead of using libvirt & virt-manager, because I need to specify sockets/cores/threads for my CPU. Otherwise Windows XP only uses 2 CPUs. I don't think this is relevant but who knows. The Problem: The KVM windows image starts up fine, and at first works properly. But after a very short duration, usually less than two minutes, the networking freezes up. Can't get to the internet, can't access local shares, nothing. Sometimes it magically comes back; sometimes it's gone forever. An interesting, possibly related detail: If I shut down the Windows image, the host machine's networking freezes up for many seconds just as the image is exiting. After the exit is complete and KVM is completely shut down, I can ssh or VNC back into the host machine again without problems. So, after restarting the KVM image I try running the "iperf" network performance tool in two modes. 1) From a separate PC on my LAN, I can run iperf between the Lucid *host* and that PC, and never have any problems. I can consistently get 800 Mbits/sec up and 200 MBits/sec down. (I've run it about 50 times) 2) From the separate PC to the KVM Windows image running on the Lucid host: - it sometimes runs successfully with 130Mbit/sec in both directions; - other times gets just 25-40Mbit/sec; - and sometimes it fails completely with the error message "write failed: Connection reset by peer. read on server close failed: Connection reset by peer". What can I do to help pinpoint this bug? My hunch is the error is in the bridging or the ethernet driver, but I don't know how to test that since I only use bridging for KVM clients! Any ideas on what I can do? I really want to help diagnose this. Binary package hint: kvm ===================================== SRU justification: 1. Impact: Networking can freeze for a while when VMs are started or stopped. 2. How addressed: a patch was cherry-picked from upstream, which makes sure to assign the libvirt bridge a low enough macaddr that the VM's macaddr will be higher, so that the bridge does not change macaddrs, which is the cause of the hangs. 3. Patch: see the linked bzr tree 4. Regression potential: very unlikely as this patch is upstream, and only affects the mac address chosen for the libvirt brige. 5. To reproduce: Define a VM with a macaddr lower than the bridge's. Start the VM. ===================================== Serious networking problems with KVM running a Windows XP x64 host using bridged networking. This may be a KVM bug, or a bridged-networking or ethernet driver bug; I unfortunately don't have the skills to tell the difference but will do what I can to help pinpoint the problem. My Setup: - Lucid 64bit installed on dual quad-core (Intel) Dell Precision R710, 32Gb RAM. - One KVM instance running Windows XP x64 with 16Gb RAM, using bridged networking. Symptoms occur with both standard "-net nic" KVM network drivers (rtl8139?) and virtio network drivers on Windows. Either way I am also using "-net tap" so I can get out to the real network. - I'm starting KVM from the command line instead of using libvirt & virt-manager, because I need to specify sockets/cores/threads for my CPU. Otherwise Windows XP only uses 2 CPUs. I don't think this is relevant but who knows. The Problem: The KVM windows image starts up fine, and at first works properly. But after a very short duration, usually less than two minutes, the networking freezes up. Can't get to the internet, can't access local shares, nothing. Sometimes it magically comes back; sometimes it's gone forever. An interesting, possibly related detail: If I shut down the Windows image, the host machine's networking freezes up for many seconds just as the image is exiting. After the exit is complete and KVM is completely shut down, I can ssh or VNC back into the host machine again without problems. So, after restarting the KVM image I try running the "iperf" network performance tool in two modes. 1) From a separate PC on my LAN, I can run iperf between the Lucid *host* and that PC, and never have any problems. I can consistently get 800 Mbits/sec up and 200 MBits/sec down. (I've run it about 50 times) 2) From the separate PC to the KVM Windows image running on the Lucid host:       - it sometimes runs successfully with 130Mbit/sec in both directions;       - other times gets just 25-40Mbit/sec;       - and sometimes it fails completely with the error message "write failed: Connection reset by peer. read on server close failed: Connection reset by peer". What can I do to help pinpoint this bug? My hunch is the error is in the bridging or the ethernet driver, but I don't know how to test that since I only use bridging for KVM clients! Any ideas on what I can do? I really want to help diagnose this.
2011-04-05 19:49:34 Serge Hallyn description Binary package hint: kvm ===================================== SRU justification: 1. Impact: Networking can freeze for a while when VMs are started or stopped. 2. How addressed: a patch was cherry-picked from upstream, which makes sure to assign the libvirt bridge a low enough macaddr that the VM's macaddr will be higher, so that the bridge does not change macaddrs, which is the cause of the hangs. 3. Patch: see the linked bzr tree 4. Regression potential: very unlikely as this patch is upstream, and only affects the mac address chosen for the libvirt brige. 5. To reproduce: Define a VM with a macaddr lower than the bridge's. Start the VM. ===================================== Serious networking problems with KVM running a Windows XP x64 host using bridged networking. This may be a KVM bug, or a bridged-networking or ethernet driver bug; I unfortunately don't have the skills to tell the difference but will do what I can to help pinpoint the problem. My Setup: - Lucid 64bit installed on dual quad-core (Intel) Dell Precision R710, 32Gb RAM. - One KVM instance running Windows XP x64 with 16Gb RAM, using bridged networking. Symptoms occur with both standard "-net nic" KVM network drivers (rtl8139?) and virtio network drivers on Windows. Either way I am also using "-net tap" so I can get out to the real network. - I'm starting KVM from the command line instead of using libvirt & virt-manager, because I need to specify sockets/cores/threads for my CPU. Otherwise Windows XP only uses 2 CPUs. I don't think this is relevant but who knows. The Problem: The KVM windows image starts up fine, and at first works properly. But after a very short duration, usually less than two minutes, the networking freezes up. Can't get to the internet, can't access local shares, nothing. Sometimes it magically comes back; sometimes it's gone forever. An interesting, possibly related detail: If I shut down the Windows image, the host machine's networking freezes up for many seconds just as the image is exiting. After the exit is complete and KVM is completely shut down, I can ssh or VNC back into the host machine again without problems. So, after restarting the KVM image I try running the "iperf" network performance tool in two modes. 1) From a separate PC on my LAN, I can run iperf between the Lucid *host* and that PC, and never have any problems. I can consistently get 800 Mbits/sec up and 200 MBits/sec down. (I've run it about 50 times) 2) From the separate PC to the KVM Windows image running on the Lucid host:       - it sometimes runs successfully with 130Mbit/sec in both directions;       - other times gets just 25-40Mbit/sec;       - and sometimes it fails completely with the error message "write failed: Connection reset by peer. read on server close failed: Connection reset by peer". What can I do to help pinpoint this bug? My hunch is the error is in the bridging or the ethernet driver, but I don't know how to test that since I only use bridging for KVM clients! Any ideas on what I can do? I really want to help diagnose this. Binary package hint: kvm ===================================== SRU justification: 1. Impact: Networking can freeze for a while when VMs are started or stopped. 2. How addressed: a patch was cherry-picked from upstream, which carefully chooses high enough macaddr for newly created network interfaces so that the bridge does not change macaddrs, which is the cause of the hangs. 3. Patch: see the linked bzr tree 4. Regression potential: very unlikely as this patch is upstream, and only affects the mac address chosen for the libvirt brige. 5. To reproduce: Define a VM with a macaddr lower than the bridge's. Start the VM. ===================================== Serious networking problems with KVM running a Windows XP x64 host using bridged networking. This may be a KVM bug, or a bridged-networking or ethernet driver bug; I unfortunately don't have the skills to tell the difference but will do what I can to help pinpoint the problem. My Setup: - Lucid 64bit installed on dual quad-core (Intel) Dell Precision R710, 32Gb RAM. - One KVM instance running Windows XP x64 with 16Gb RAM, using bridged networking. Symptoms occur with both standard "-net nic" KVM network drivers (rtl8139?) and virtio network drivers on Windows. Either way I am also using "-net tap" so I can get out to the real network. - I'm starting KVM from the command line instead of using libvirt & virt-manager, because I need to specify sockets/cores/threads for my CPU. Otherwise Windows XP only uses 2 CPUs. I don't think this is relevant but who knows. The Problem: The KVM windows image starts up fine, and at first works properly. But after a very short duration, usually less than two minutes, the networking freezes up. Can't get to the internet, can't access local shares, nothing. Sometimes it magically comes back; sometimes it's gone forever. An interesting, possibly related detail: If I shut down the Windows image, the host machine's networking freezes up for many seconds just as the image is exiting. After the exit is complete and KVM is completely shut down, I can ssh or VNC back into the host machine again without problems. So, after restarting the KVM image I try running the "iperf" network performance tool in two modes. 1) From a separate PC on my LAN, I can run iperf between the Lucid *host* and that PC, and never have any problems. I can consistently get 800 Mbits/sec up and 200 MBits/sec down. (I've run it about 50 times) 2) From the separate PC to the KVM Windows image running on the Lucid host:       - it sometimes runs successfully with 130Mbit/sec in both directions;       - other times gets just 25-40Mbit/sec;       - and sometimes it fails completely with the error message "write failed: Connection reset by peer. read on server close failed: Connection reset by peer". What can I do to help pinpoint this bug? My hunch is the error is in the bridging or the ethernet driver, but I don't know how to test that since I only use bridging for KVM clients! Any ideas on what I can do? I really want to help diagnose this.
2011-04-05 19:53:18 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~serge-hallyn/ubuntu/lucid/libvirt/fix-macaddr
2011-04-05 19:53:23 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid): status Incomplete In Progress
2011-04-05 19:53:30 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid): importance Undecided High
2011-04-05 19:54:49 Serge Hallyn qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid): assignee Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
2011-04-05 19:55:03 Serge Hallyn bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2011-04-10 22:26:09 Serge Hallyn affects qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) libvirt (Ubuntu)
2011-04-10 22:26:09 Serge Hallyn libvirt (Ubuntu): status Invalid Fix Released
2011-04-20 13:39:17 Leonardo Borda bug added subscriber Leonardo Borda
2011-04-25 17:47:03 Clint Byrum libvirt (Ubuntu Lucid): status In Progress Fix Committed
2011-04-25 17:47:08 Clint Byrum bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2011-04-25 17:47:13 Clint Byrum tags server-mrs server-mrs verification-needed
2011-05-02 07:47:50 Martin Pitt tags server-mrs verification-needed server-mrs verification-done
2011-05-03 05:21:07 Launchpad Janitor libvirt (Ubuntu Lucid): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2011-05-04 12:27:31 ossjunkie bug added subscriber ossjunkie
2011-06-07 10:26:53 Arnulf Heimsbakk bug added subscriber Arnulf Heimsbakk
2012-04-11 10:13:16 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/lucid-proposed/libvirt
2017-10-28 00:22:21 Bug Watch Updater qemu-kvm (Fedora): status Unknown Fix Released
2017-10-28 00:22:21 Bug Watch Updater qemu-kvm (Fedora): importance Unknown High