Re: virtio support

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>]

On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 00:13 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name Hurd -S -machine pc-i440fx-
> 2.4,accel=tcg,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu kvm32 -m 2048
> 
> 
> It is almost the same as before, just the important addition of "-
> enable-kvm" option.
> 
> Thanks.

Okay!! The overall system performance is better. But still many things
may be broken.


Trying to ssh into the Hurd VM hangs. When trying to SSH connect, in
the Guest, the CPU tops to 70%+

On the host:

rrs@learner:~$ ssh root@172.16.230.201
root@172.16.230.201's password: 
Timeout, server 172.16.230.201 not responding.
2016-02-09 / 00:27:03 ♒♒♒    ☹  => 255  


Then, there's another interesting bug with networking. The first
attempt to restart the network fails. The follow-up attempt passes.



And finally, my app: apt-offline has some zipfile related exceptions
that trigger only on the Hurd platform. The same dataset, when used
under Linux, works fine.

The exception is:

hurd-dev_1%3a0.7.git20160114-1_hurd-i386.deb file synced.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-offline", line 28, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
packages/apt_offline_core/AptOfflineCoreLib.py", line 1997, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
packages/apt_offline_core/AptOfflineCoreLib.py", line 1368, in
installer
    data.file.write( zipBugFile.read( filename ) )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 935, in read
    return self.open(name, "r", pwd).read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 630, in read
    data = self.read1(n)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 684, in read1
    max(n - len_readbuffer, self.MIN_READ_SIZE)
zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing: invalid block type



Which I think may be a memory issue, what you mentioned earlier.

I think all these should be filed individually as bugs ? Or should I
just keep reporting them on the mailing list ?


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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