qemu2.9 meet a question using reconnect about ovs+dpdk env: qemu-2.9 dpdk-16.11 ovs-2.6.1 host os:Linux compute 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 16:42:41 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux guest os is same with host 1. ovs service is normal 2. start 2 qemu vm, using vhostuser port as server taskset 0x3f qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -smp 2,cores=2 -drive file=$QCOW2_IMAGE -m 4096M --enable-kvm -name $VM_NAME -nographic -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=$GUEST_MEM,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc -chardev socket,id=char1,path=$VHOST_SOCK_DIR/dpdkvhostuser0,server -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char1,vhostforce,queues=2 -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mq=on,vectors=6 -nographic -vnc :0 qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser0,server: QEMU waiting for connection on: disconnected:unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser0,server taskset 0x3f qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -smp 2,cores=2 -drive file=$QCOW2_IMAGE -m 4096M --enable-kvm -name $VM_NAME -nographic -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=$GUEST_MEM,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc -chardev socket,id=char1,path=$VHOST_SOCK_DIR/dpdkvhostuser0,server -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char1,vhostforce,queues=2 -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mq=on,vectors=6 -nographic -vnc :0 qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser0,server: QEMU waiting for connection on: disconnected:unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser1,server 3. add br and vhostuser port as client ovs-vsctl add-br br1 -- set bridge br1 datapath_type=netdev ovs-vsctl add-port br1 dpdkvhostuser0 -- set Interface dpdkvhostuser0 type=dpdkvhostuserclient options:vhost-server-path="/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser0" ovs-vsctl add-port br1 dpdkvhostuser1 -- set Interface dpdkvhostuser1 type=dpdkvhostuserclient options:vhost-server-path="/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/dpdkvhostuser1" 4. ping between 2 vm is ok 5. restart ovs process systemctl restart openvswitch 6. there is a question ping between 2 vm error 7. change qemu from 2.9 to 2.7, everything become ok ooking through old bug tickets... is this still an issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays? And what is a "question ping between 2 vm error" ? [Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]