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DaggyStyle
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 Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:53 am Post subject: virt-manager: vm's cpu config doesn't presists when on [fix] |
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Greetings,
I've successfully migrated a vbox based vm to kvm but with one small issue, I've configured the vm's cpu to copy the host's cpuinfo and allocated 4 cores (host cpu is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8 cores), before the boot, when I check the vm's cpu config section all is good, when I boot the vm the config changes and אhe guest (windows 7 ultimate) shows a different cpu type (Intel Xeon E312xx) with only 2 cores.
what is weirder is that I have another vm with windows 7 home on it, it shows the same issue but with only one core.
I'm pretty sure I saw all 4 cores on that vm. I'm using kernel 4.14.1, virt-manager 1.4.3.
any ideas what can be the issue?
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| What is the full command line used to invoke qemu/kvm? You may need to specify the number of virtual CPUs explicitly via -smp. |
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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here:
| Code: | qemu 6230 95.0 26.3 5239948 4189324 ? Sl 12:38 0:07 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=Windows7_HP,debug-threads=on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Windows7_HP/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-2.9,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu SandyBridge,vme=on,ss=on,pcid=on,hypervisor=on,arat=on,tsc_adjust=on,xsaveopt=on -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 3c8cb165-3ef3-4023-92ff-af97dca4d992 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-Windows7_HP/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x7 -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5 -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x1 -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5.0x2 -device ahci,id=sata0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -drive file=/home/virt_admin/Machines/kvm/Windows7_home-qcow2.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-sata0-0-0 -device ide-hd,bus=sata0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,readonly=on -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:58:d8:d2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,image-compression=off,seamless-migration=on -device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,max_outputs=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0,bus=usb.0,port=1 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir1,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir1,id=redir1,bus=usb.0,port=2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -msg timestamp=on
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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My guess Is that you have to set threads and sockets in virt-manager. If that does not stick, I'll recommend upgrading virt-manager because that function had a known bug earlier (sorry, do not remember what version).
Edit: After reading again, I see your version should not be a problem. Unless bug has regressed, have not booted my KVM after last update. |
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DaggyStyle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| hceline wrote: | My guess Is that you have to set threads and sockets in virt-manager. If that does not stick, I'll recommend upgrading virt-manager because that function had a known bug earlier (sorry, do not remember what version).
Edit: After reading again, I see your version should not be a problem. Unless bug has regressed, have not booted my KVM after last update. |
tried both 1.4.3 and 1.4.2, the issue presists.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have "Manually set CPU topology" checked in virt-manager? It should be, and the part below should be Sockets 1, Cores 4, Threads 2 to emulate a std 4 core, 8 thread CPU.
The above is for 8 logical CPU's in guest, if you use 4 it would be: Sockets 1, Cores 2, Threads 2. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| hceline wrote: | Do you have "Manually set CPU topology" checked in virt-manager? It should be, and the part below should be Sockets 1, Cores 4, Threads 2 to emulate a std 4 core, 8 thread CPU.
The above is for 8 logical CPU's in guest, if you use 4 it would be: Sockets 1, Cores 2, Threads 2. |
no, I'd expect it to be auto if I define current cpu allocation to 4 and max cpu allocation to 4, anyway i've set it to the right topology and updated the current to 4 and I see 4 cores.
that's one issue solved, now the cpu type is still an issue, I tick the use host cpu and when I turn it on, I see it gets unicked and the cpu showed is different. any ideas?
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hceline
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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To get exact same CPU as host, use: "host-passthrough" (without the quotes) in The "Model:" field. This is not in the list, you have to type it in manually.
On a side-note: If you want to take advantage of cache locality, you have to set the correct threads and pin the CPU-cores. I'll put the relevant parts of my .xml for reference below (I got 1 CPU with 4 cores and total 8 threads on host, and I duplicate the whole CPU to guest).
| Code: | <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu>
<cputune>
<vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='3,7'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='2,6'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='1,5'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='0,4'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='3,7'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='2,6'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='1,5'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='0,4'/>
</cputune>
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'>
<topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/>
<cache mode='passthrough'/>
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Edit: Just for explanation of the strange numbers in vcpupin: I've reversed the numbering of the cores when duplicating the cpu to the guest because I noticed that almost all interrupts go to core 0 both on host and guest. This way i distribute host irq to core 0 and guest irq to core 3 (I believe, can't say fore sure if it has any effect). I also map two host cores to each guest core in cache-local pairs to try avoiding forced scheduling of idle guest cores (Edit2: or rather non scheduling of busy guest cores where same core is busy on host)(do no know for sure if that works either). A direct copy would be:
| Code: | <cputune>
<vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='2'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='3'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='4'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='5'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='6'/>
<vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='7'/>
</cputune> |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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excellent! that did it!, I've opened virt-manager, went into my vm's cpu config, replaced the model with host-passthrough and unticked the copy cpu checkbox.
now I'll see if it is stable enough to deploy on my other vms, thanks!.
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