Remote desktop on Gnome hangs randomly

ph7

@ovicz
Perhaps upgrade bios ???

ovicz

I'm afraid there aren't any bios updates...the device is a chinese mini pc from aliexpress. I've spoken with the seller and he told there aren't any, at least not official ones. I don't think it's a bios issue, but something regarding the passthrough on the newer devices . maybe the kernel from xcp is too old, although it's heavily patched.

ovicz

Setting pci=nomsi seems to do the trick for now. Probably not optimal but it's just a VM and I didn't notice any performance issues.

olivierlambert

Adding @Team-OS-Platform-Release in case that rings a bell

yann

Since GPU passthrough is involved I'd ping @Team-Hypervisor-Kernel

ovicz

If i remove the pci=nomsi from grub..this pops up in xl dmesg.

(XEN) [15627.724045] CPU3: Running in modulated clock mode
(XEN) [15628.457337] d[IDLE]v0: Unsupported MSI delivery mode 7 for Dom5
(XEN) [15628.457339] d[IDLE]v2: Unsupported MSI delivery mode 7 for Dom5

That's when the gnome desktop hangs. Is this fixable ?

dinhngtu

@ovicz Are you up for a test package with a fix? Note that the fix is not yet tested nor supported at the moment.

Add user repos using this command:

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://koji.xcp-ng.org/repos/user/8/8.3/xcpng-users.repo

To know what you need to upgrade, run this command (as xcp-ng-ndinh2 contains some changes that you don't need):

rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\t%{SOURCERPM}\n' | grep $'\txapi'

Then upgrade just the XAPI-related packages:

yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-ndinh2 <list of packages from above>

Remember to reboot the host after installing.

Finally, disable hvm-pirq on your affected VM and reboot it (parameter name subject to change):

xe vm-param-set uuid=... platform:hvm-pirq=false

To go back, list what you installed and downgrade them:

yum list installed | grep ndinh
yum downgrade ...

ovicz

Hello. I did what you said and it seems to work. Thank you.

dinhngtu

@ovicz Thanks for testing. Is everything working without the pci=nomsi or GRUB command line tweaks? We'll work to integrate this fix into a future update.

ovicz

Yes. I removed pci=nomsi entry from grub. I've tested on a Debian Forky and CentOS Stream 10 VMs with gnome and an intel alderlake igpu passthrough no issues at all.