On 20.02.2014, at 13:34, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:23:42AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> I am now running a full libguestfs test which will take several hours, >> but it looks as if -- even if this test fails -- it won't be because >> of lack of emulation / missing instructions in qemu. > > The tests ran. I hit two bugs, but neither seems to be related to > qemu emulation. Please push these patches into upstream qemu :-) They will get into 2.0, no worries :). > One bug is in btrfs and is related to page size being different (and > much larger) on ppc64. I remember bugs (oopses) with btrfs when you use a 4k page size created fs and use it on a 64k page size kernel and vice versa. They still haven't fixed that? > The second bug is kind of interesting. If you add ~ 256 disks (using > virtio-scsi), then it looks as if the firmware crashes. The total > console output is below. It looks as if "c >" is some kind of prompt. > qemu spins using 100% of CPU after this. How much RAM do you pass into the guest? Could you please try to increase that size to see whether it makes a difference? If it doesn't, Aneesh is your man :) Alex