QEMU warns us about this:
kvm: -chardev socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/100.qmp,server,nowait: warning: short-form boolean option 'server' deprecated
Please use server=on instead
kvm: -chardev socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/100.qmp,server,nowait: warning: short-form boolean option 'nowait' deprecated
Please use wait=off instead
kvm: -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/100.vnc,password: warning: short-form boolean option 'password' deprecated
Please use password=on instead
The new syntax is backwards compatible to at least QEMU 4.0.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
A fix for violating a important standard for booting[0] in recently
packaged QEMU 5.2 surfaced some issues with Windows based VMs in our
forum[1], which seem to be quite sensitive for such changes (it seems
they derive lots of their device assignment from ACPI).
User visible effects are loss of any network configuration due to
windows thinking it was swapped with a new one, and starts with a
fresh config - this is mostly problematic for setups with static
address assignment.
There may be lots of other, more subtle, effects and the PVE admin is
also not always the VM admin, so we really need to avoid such
negative effects. Do this by pinning the version of any windows based
VMs to either the minimum of (5.1, kvm-version) for existing VMs or
the kvm-version at time of VM creation for new ones.
There are patches in pve-manager for user to be able to change the
pinned version themself in the webinterface, so this can now also get
adapted more easily if there surface any other issues (with new or
old version) in the future.
0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg08484.html
1: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/warning-latest-patch-just-broke-all-my-windows-vms-6-3-4-patch-inside.84915/page-2#post-373331
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Ignore shutdowns triggered from within the guest in favor of detecting
them via qmeventd and stopping the QEMU process that way.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Edid support was added with Qemu 5. Windows guests seem to not be able
to get all possible resolutions if the default std VGA device is used as
GPU and the VM boots in BIOS mode. The result is that only one of the
following three resolutions can be configured:
800x600
1024x768
1920x1080
It is important to note that just booting a Windows VM with the edid=off
parameter will not make the large list of resolutions available. It
seems that Windows is caching the list of possible resolutions
somewhere [0].
Uninstalling the 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' in the device manager
and rebooting the VM is one way I found to force Windows to recreate the
list of possible resolutions.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer@proxmox.com>
[0] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg07128.html
Requires a mock CPU-model config, which is given as a raw string to also
test parsing capabilities. Also tests defaulting behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-By: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Tested-By: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
