11:22 a.m.
I wonder if it makes sense to add this to qemu/ga, actually?
It takes time, but ultimately it’s the one common tool for guest side
stuff. At least worth asking if there is any interest, I guess
Thanks,
michal
> On 12 Mar 2019, at 13:30, Francesco Romani <fromani(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> lately I've been involved again in hyperv support. I was tasked to help improve
the testability of the hyperv guest configuration.
>
> Hyperv support is a set of optimizations that libvirt/qemu offer to improve the
runtime behaviour (stability, performance) of Windows guets.
>
>
> See for example: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFeatures
>
> oVirt does support them (see for example
https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/blob/master/lib/vdsm/virt/libvirtxml.py#L243) and will keep
supporting them
>
> because they are a key feature for windows guests.
>
>
> Up until now the easiest (only?) way to check if a hyperv optmization was really
enabled was to inspect the libvirt XML and/or the QEMU command line flags
>
> But we wanted to have another check.
>
>
> Enter hvinfo: https://github.com/fromanirh/hvinfo
>
> hvinfo is a simple tool that decodes CPUID informations according to the
publicly-available HyperV specs
(https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/tree/live/tlfs) and report
what the guest sees.
>
> It takes no arguments - just run it!-, it requires no special privileges and emits
easy to consume JSON. It is designed to help and integrate into fully automated CI/QA.
>
>
> Being a commandline tool, is hard to give a "screenshot", so let me just
report sample output (admin privileges not actually required)
>
> Windows PowerShell
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> PS C:\Users\admin> cd .\Downloads\
> PS C:\Users\admin\Downloads> .\hvinfo.exe
> {
> "HyperVsupport": true,
> "Features": {
> "GuestDebugging": false,
> "PerformanceMonitor": false,
> "PCPUDynamicPartitioningEvents": true,
> "HypercallInputParamsXMM": false,
> "VirtualGuestIdleState": false,
> "HypervisorSleepState": false,
> "NUMADistanceQuery": false,
> "TimerFrequenciesQuery": false,
> "SytheticMCEInjection": false,
> "GuestCrashMSR": false,
> "DebugMSR": false,
> "NPIEP": false,
> "DisableHypervisorAvailable": false,
> "ExtendedGvaRangesForFlushVirtualAddressList": false,
> "HypercallOutputReturnXMM": false,
> "SintPollingMode": false,
> "HypercallMsrLock": false,
> "UseDirectSyntheticTimers": false
> },
> "Recommendations": {
> "HypercallAddressSpaceSwitch": false,
> "HypercallLocalTLBFlush": false,
> "HypercallRemoteTLBFlush": false,
> "MSRAPICRegisters": true,
> "MSRSystemReset": false,
> "RelaxedTiming": true,
> "DMARemapping": false,
> "InterruptRemapping": false,
> "X2APICMSR": false,
> "DeprecatingAutoEOI": false,
> "SyntheticClusterIPI": false,
> "ExProcessorMasks": false,
> "Nested": false,
> "INTForMBECSyscalls": false,
> "NestedEVMCS": false,
> "SyncedTimeline": false,
> "DirectLocalFlushEntire": false,
> "NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing": false,
> "SpinlockRetries": 8191
> }
> }
> PS C:\Users\admin\Downloads>
>
>
> Caveat: the name of the features are the same of the spec, so we need mappings for
oVirt flags, libvirt flags and so on.
>
> For example
>
> libvirt xml
>
> domain.features.hyperv.relaxed[state="on"]
>
> maps to hvinfo json
>
> Features.Recommendations.RelaxedTiming=true
>
>
> Feel free to test it and report any issue
>
>
> Bests,
>
>
> --
> Francesco Romani
> Senior SW Eng., Virtualization R&D
> Red Hat
> IRC: fromani github: @fromanirh
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