XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀

[gskger]

@stormi My first HP Elitedesk 600 G6 Mini arrived (i5-10500T, 6 cores, 12 threads, 2.3 GHz base clock, 64GB RAM, 256GB NVME) and XCP-ng 8.3 alpha installed and updated right away (but I have the efi: EFI_MEMMAP not enabled message with a boot delay).

The XTF test on this non-enterprise hardware returns

[M01]# ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

and

[M01]# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
[M01]# echo $?
3
[M01]#

Have not done anything else with this unit yet.

[Strebor]

Sorry for being very late to this show, but I would like to thank everybody involved in getting XCP-ng ready for using on modern 10th and 11th gen Intel NUCs! Great job!

So, to replace (in the near future) the old and large power guzzling lab servers in my office, I've just ordered 2x Intel NUC 11 with i5-1135G7 CPU and the intel 2.5 gbit I225 NIC.

Looking forward to testing them and getting ready for XCP-ng 8.3!

[Andrew]

@stormi I have 8.3 alpha+updates running on an HP DL360 G8 and it's working as expected since currently it's mostly an update to 8.2... I did an ISO install/update and it went ok. I did have to re-install some packages that were installed before on 8.2 and fix options that were removed during the 8.3 install but it keep most of XCP/Network/VM config.

[stormi]

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha :

Small Announcement / Testing Guide

There is a new and easy way for you to help testing XCP-ng 8.3: a few test scripts from the Xen project which deserve to be run on a wide variety of hosts. You don't need to run them on every host if they are truly identical, but it's good to run them on a wide range of hardware.

The first one is XTF (stands for Xen Test Framework)

XTF

Enable HVM FEP on the host. This is not mandatory but if you don't, several tests that require it will be skipped:

/opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --set-xen hvm_fep
reboot

Build XTF

yum install gcc git -y
git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/xtf.git
cd xtf
make -j8

Run the tests

# self test
./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
# all tests
# -q stands for quiet. Remove one or both if you want to see details.
./xtf-runner -aqq --host
# check return code. Should be "3" which means "no failures but some tests were skipped":
echo $?

There will be a few SKIPPED tests, but there shouldn't be many.

Known skipped tests:

• test-hvm32-umip test-hvm64-umip: skipped if the CPU is not recent enough to support UMIP.
• test-pv64-xsa-167: always skipped
• test-pv64-xsa-182: skipped in default configuration.

You can ignore them.

xen-dom0-tests

The testsuite is very limited in Xen 4.13, but let's still run what's available.

Install:

yum install xen-dom0-tests

Run

/usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy
# check return code. Must be 0, otherwise this means there was a failure.
echo $?

I'm still interested in as many users as possible running this on their hardware.

[jhansen]

@stormi
Hello, here the results on my server:

Test server:
Dell Poweredge R730
2 x Xenon E5-2698v4
512GB RAM

./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

./xtf-runner -aqq --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
Echo Result 3

/usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy
CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
Echo Result 0

[JeffBerntsen]

@stormi

Here's the results from one of my test lab servers:

Test server: HP MicroServer
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L
RAM: 8GB

xtf-runner selftest -q --host

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

xtf-runner -aqq --host

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP

/usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok

echo $?
0

[Andrew]

@stormi

Intel NUC10i5FNH
Intel i5-10210U

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

Intel NUC11PAHi5
Intel i5-1135G7

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-hvm64-lbr-tsx-vmentry               CRASH
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
6

(XEN) [   93.051330] d13v0 Unknown Host LBR MSRs
(XEN) [   93.051334] domain_crash called from arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c#vmx_msr_write_intercept+0x4c2/0x510
(XEN) [   93.051335] Domain 13 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#7:
(XEN) [   93.051336] ----[ Xen-4.13.4-9.29.1  x86_64  debug=n   Tainted:    H ]----
(XEN) [   93.051337] CPU:    7
(XEN) [   93.051338] RIP:    0008:[<000000000010446e>]
(XEN) [   93.051338] RFLAGS: 0000000000000046   CONTEXT: hvm guest (d13v0)
(XEN) [   93.051340] rax: 0000000000000001   rbx: 000000000010d000   rcx: 00000000000001d9
(XEN) [   93.051340] rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [   93.051341] rbp: 0000000000000000   rsp: 0000000000119fe8   r8:  000000000000000a
(XEN) [   93.051341] r9:  000000000000001e   r10: 0000000000000049   r11: 000000000000001e
(XEN) [   93.051342] r12: 0000000000000000   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [   93.051343] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080010011   cr4: 0000000000000020
(XEN) [   93.051343] cr3: 000000000010d000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [   93.051344] fsb: 0000000000000000   gsb: 0000000000000000   gss: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [   93.051345] ds: 0033   es: 0033   fs: 0033   gs: 0033   ss: 0000   cs: 0008
(XEN) [   95.347733] d38v0 Bad rIP 800000000000 for mode 8
(XEN) [   97.443996] d70v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d0bfffb200 [ffff82d0bfffb200], stk e010:8000000000112ff0, dr6 ffff0ff0
(XEN) [   97.568064] d72v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d080371ba0 [int3], stk 0000:ffff83003368ff78, dr6 ffff2ff0

ASUS MINIPC PN63-S1
Intel i7-11370H

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-hvm64-lbr-tsx-vmentry               CRASH
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
6

(XEN) [  356.488438] d27v0 Unknown Host LBR MSRs
(XEN) [  356.488442] domain_crash called from arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c#vmx_msr_write_intercept+0x4c2/0x510
(XEN) [  356.488443] Domain 27 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#7:
(XEN) [  356.488444] ----[ Xen-4.13.4-9.29.1  x86_64  debug=n   Tainted:    H ]----
(XEN) [  356.488445] CPU:    7
(XEN) [  356.488446] RIP:    0008:[<000000000010446e>]
(XEN) [  356.488447] RFLAGS: 0000000000000046   CONTEXT: hvm guest (d27v0)
(XEN) [  356.488448] rax: 0000000000000001   rbx: 000000000010d000   rcx: 00000000000001d9
(XEN) [  356.488449] rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  356.488449] rbp: 0000000000000000   rsp: 0000000000119fe8   r8:  000000000000000a
(XEN) [  356.488450] r9:  000000000000001e   r10: 0000000000000049   r11: 000000000000001e
(XEN) [  356.488451] r12: 0000000000000000   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  356.488451] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080010011   cr4: 0000000000000020
(XEN) [  356.488452] cr3: 000000000010d000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  356.488453] fsb: 0000000000000000   gsb: 0000000000000000   gss: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  356.488454] ds: 0033   es: 0033   fs: 0033   gs: 0033   ss: 0000   cs: 0008
(XEN) [  358.951619] d52v0 Bad rIP 800000000000 for mode 8
(XEN) [  361.254829] d84v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d0bfffb200 [ffff82d0bfffb200], stk e010:8000000000112ff0, dr6 ffff0ff0
(XEN) [  361.397060] d86v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d080371ba0 [int3], stk 0000:ffff831080c27f78, dr6 ffff2ff0

HP ML310e G8
Intel E3-1240 V2

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

Supermicro X9DRL-7F
Intel E5-2643

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

HP EliteDesk 800 G3
Intel i7-7700 CPU

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

ASRock 4x4 BOX-5000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600U

Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

HP DL360p Gen8
Intel E5-2680

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

[stormi]

@Andrew I pushed a test build of Xen in the testing repository for XCP-ng 8.3, which will hopefully solve the crash situations the tests found on your two servers.

Quoting @andyhhp about what the crash message means: "The guest has tried to turn on LBR, but I don't know what that means on this CPU" where LBR stands for Last Branch Record and is used for debugging and in anti-cheat software in video games.

yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
reboot

If I understood correctly, the patches add support for more recent CPUs (Sapphire Rapids) and at the same time make it so that now when guests attempt to turn LBR on, this does nothing (but at least doesn't crash).

[Andrew]

@stormi

NUC 11 (i5-1135G7) running xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.4-10.36.0.sapphirerapids.1.xcpng8.3 no longer gives the crash error. The test runs but it still generates a Xen message:

# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host ; echo Result: $?
Combined test results:
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
Result: 3

(XEN) [  119.229055] d127v0 Bad rIP 800000000000 for mode 8
(XEN) [  121.294326] d159v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d0bfffe080 [ffff82d0bfffe080], stk e010:8000000000112ff0, dr6 ffff0ff0
(XEN) [  121.418332] d161v0 Hit #DB in Xen context: e008:ffff82d080369ba0 [int3], stk 0000:ffff830896a5ff78, dr6 ffff2ff0

[andyhhp]

@Andrew Those are normal.

Bad rIP is actually an error introduced in XSA-170 because someone misread the Intel manual. I've been trying to delete it upstream for years now. Its been so long that Intel nearly released a feature which would have required us to delete that check, and I successfully persuaded the Intel documentation team to add a footnote clarifying the statement which was misinterpreted during XSA-170.

At some point in my copious free never, I should restart the argument to delete it upstream...

The other two are logging from the XSA-260 fix. There's an error(/misfeature) in the x86 architecture and those would have been privilege escalations before the fix was in place. I decided when fixing XSA-260 that such attempts shouldn't be entirely silent, hence the one-liner. That particular printk() is actually common with other debugging routines, so can occur during regular development.

[olivierlambert]

Your Xen guru badge is well earned @andyhhp

[andyhhp]

@olivierlambert said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha :

Your Xen guru badge is well earned @andyhhp

"purveyor of general grumpiness"

[rRobbie]

@stormi

Tried on my Intel NUC11ATKC4 with N5105 and 32GB of RAM.

spec from Intel site.

I know it's an edge case, nevertheless here the results:

[13:17 xcp-ng-1 xtf]# ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

[13:19 xcp-ng-1 xtf]# ./xtf-runner -aq --host
Combined test results:
test-hvm32-cpuid-faulting                SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-cpuid-faulting             SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-cpuid-faulting             SUCCESS
test-hvm64-cpuid-faulting                SUCCESS
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SUCCESS
test-hvm64-fpu-exception-emulation       SUCCESS
test-hvm32-invlpg~hap                    SUCCESS
test-hvm32-invlpg~shadow                 SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-invlpg~hap                 SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-invlpg~shadow              SUCCESS
test-hvm64-invlpg~hap                    SUCCESS
test-hvm64-invlpg~shadow                 SUCCESS
test-hvm64-lbr-tsx-vmentry               CRASH
test-hvm32-livepatch-priv-check          SUCCESS
test-hvm64-livepatch-priv-check          SUCCESS
test-pv64-livepatch-priv-check           SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-memop-seg                  SUCCESS
test-hvm64-memop-seg                     SUCCESS
test-pv64-memop-seg                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-nmi-taskswitch-priv        SUCCESS
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SUCCESS
test-pv64-pv-iopl~hypercall              SUCCESS
test-pv64-pv-iopl~vmassist               SUCCESS
test-hvm32-swint-emulation               SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-swint-emulation            SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-swint-emulation            SUCCESS
test-hvm64-swint-emulation               SUCCESS
test-hvm32-umip                          SUCCESS
test-hvm64-umip                          SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-122                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-xsa-122                    SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-xsa-122                    SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-122                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-122                        SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-123                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-hvm64-xsa-168                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-170                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-173                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
test-hvm32-xsa-186                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-186                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-188                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-xsa-188                    SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-xsa-188                    SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-188                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-188                        SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-191                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-192                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-193                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-195                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-196                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-200                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-203                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-204                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-212                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-213                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-221                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-221                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-224                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-227                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-231                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-231                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-232                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-232                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-234                        SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-239                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-255                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-259                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-260                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-261                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-265                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-269                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-277                       SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-278                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-279                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-286                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-296                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-298                        SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-308                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-316                        SUCCESS
test-hvm32-xsa-317                       SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-xsa-317                    SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-xsa-317                    SUCCESS
test-hvm64-xsa-317                       SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-317                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-333                        SUCCESS
test-pv64-xsa-339                        SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-xsa-consoleio-write        SUCCESS

[13:21 xcp-ng-1 xtf]# /usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy
CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok

[13:21 xcp-ng-1 xtf]# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host ; echo Result: $?
Combined test results:
test-hvm64-lbr-tsx-vmentry               CRASH
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
Result: 6

[stormi]

@rRobbie Thanks. This look like the same crash as discussed just above, with a candidate for a fix provided, if you want to test it. It should be included in the next update of the Xen packages anyway.

[ravenet]

@stormi Here's results from one of my lab servers. I'll run on some newer hardware next week.

Asus KGPE-D16, Opteron 6328, 128GB ram.

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS
Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

[olivierlambert]

@ravenet said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha :

Opteron 6328

Wow! It's been a while I didn't heard about those ones 11 years old CPU, and still usable, impressive

[Andrew]

@stormi

Here's two more old servers that I have still running:

Supermicro H8DGU
AMD Opteron 6380

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
Result 0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
Result 3

HP DL360 G5
Intel E5450

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
Result 0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Executing 'xl create -p tests/invlpg/test-hvm32-invlpg~hap.cfg'
Parsing config from tests/invlpg/test-hvm32-invlpg~hap.cfg
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:604:libxl__domain_make: domain creation fail: Invalid argument
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1102:initiate_domain_create: cannot make domain: -3

Error: Failed to create VM
Result 1

I guess the old G5 is getting a little too old to keep running... but it does still work.

[ravenet]

@stormi
Here's a Ryzen 1700 on Asus TUF B550

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS
Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
3

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
0

[andyhhp]

@Andrew Intel E5450, that's very retro.

It's also first-gen VT-x and doesn't have HAP, which is why the test that is looking explicitly for HAP doesn't work.

As a stopgap, remove hap from the VARY-CFG := hap shadow line in tests/invlpg/Makefile and rebuild. In the meantime I'll try to figure out a nice way to cope with this.

[Andrew]

@stormi @andyhhp Yes, it is very retro.... it was my first XCP-ng host (because it was free).

HP DL360 G5
Intel E5450

HAP test disabled

CPU Policy unit tests
Testing CPU vendor identification:
Testing CPUID serialise success:
Testing CPUID deserialise failure:
Testing CPUID out-of-range clearing:
Testing MSR serialise success:
Testing MSR deserialise failure:
Testing policy compatibility success:
Testing policy compatibility failure:
Done: all ok
Result 0

Combined test results:
test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS

Combined test results:
test-pv64-cpuid-faulting                 SKIP
test-pv64-pv-fsgsbase                    SKIP
test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
Result 3