DMA into memory while VM is stopped makes it hard to debug migration (consequitive saves result in different files).
Sending while vm is stopped has an even worse effect as it confuses the bridges so that they do not know where to send packets. Fixing this completely is a large effort, this patch does this for virtio-net since that already tracks vm state. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> --- hw/virtio-net.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c index 7e1688c..90010e6 100644 --- a/hw/virtio-net.c +++ b/hw/virtio-net.c @@ -424,6 +424,9 @@ static void virtio_net_handle_rx(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq) static int virtio_net_can_receive(VLANClientState *nc) { VirtIONet *n = DO_UPCAST(NICState, nc, nc)->opaque; + if (!n->vm_running) { + return 0; + } if (!virtio_queue_ready(n->rx_vq) || !(n->vdev.status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)) @@ -673,11 +676,14 @@ static int32_t virtio_net_flush_tx(VirtIONet *n, VirtQueue *vq) { VirtQueueElement elem; int32_t num_packets = 0; - if (!(n->vdev.status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)) { return num_packets; } + if (!n->vm_running) { + return 0; + } + if (n->async_tx.elem.out_num) { virtio_queue_set_notification(n->tx_vq, 0); return num_packets; -- 1.7.3-rc1