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| author | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-05-30 16:52:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-05-30 16:52:17 +0200 |
| commit | 9260319e7411ff8281700a532caa436f40120ec4 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6bfe5f3458dd49d328d3a9eb508595450adec0 /gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1337 | |
| parent | 225caa38269323af1bfc2daadff5ec8bd930747f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1337 b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1337 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..43bfefaa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1337 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Incorrect warnings when using vhost without numa +Description of problem: +Part A: Misleading error message. Running the above command for any architecture fails to initialize vhost, and prints the following, incorrect advice +``` +qemu-system-mips: Failed initializing vhost-user memory map, consider using -object memory-backend-file share=on +qemu-system-mips: vhost_set_mem_table failed: Invalid argument (22) +qemu-system-mips: Error starting vhost: 22 +``` + +Since the command line already contains `-object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,mem-path=/tmp/mem,size=256M,share=on` this error message should not be printed. For x86_64, this can be resolved by adding `-numa node,memdev=mem0` to the command line. As such, I think this error message should instead guide a user to adding that argument. + +Part B: No documented configuration to run vhost-user for machines that don't support numa. +The mips malta machine does not support the `-numa` flag. It is unclear if this means that `vhost` cannot be used with this platform or if a non-numa configuration with a memory-backend-file can be used. +Steps to reproduce: +1. Run `vhost-user-vsock --socket=/tmp/vhost4.socket --uds-path=/tmp/foo` from https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device. +1. Run the above QEMU command |