On 11/07/2021 18:17, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 11/07/2021 20.14, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/07/2021 16:19, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/07/2021 10.22, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 10/07/2021 19:09, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/07/2021 10.56, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>> On 10/07/2021 08:44, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>>>> Recently I started having Xorg crash while using firefox.
>>>>>>
This is f34 in a libvirt kvm, host (also f34) uses internal i915 video.
>>>>>>
Kernel is 5.12.14-300.fc34.x86_64 but saw this with earlier 5.12.12/13 kernels.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've not seen any crashes on my VM. Host is F34 and multiple
guests, including F34 guests.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a test, have you tried changing your guest video from QXL to
Virtio?
>>>>
>>>> Worth a try. I am now running with Virtio video. Audio sync is a bit
out...
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly: I tried to change back to QXL for comparo but LXD could
not start,
>>>> X repeatedly terminated with
>>>> [ 43.747] resizing primary to 3840x2160
>>>> [ 43.747] primary is 0x5640e09faa30
>>>> [ 43.747] (EE) qxl(0): failed to set mode: Cannot allocate
memory(EE)
>>>> I will deal with this later.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is your host running low on memory?
>>
>> I do not think so. I changed back to QXL and LXDM failed in a loop, at that
point
>> I did this on the host:
>>
>> $ free
>> total used free shared buff/cache available
>> Mem: 32734592 3232096 7343812 246400 22158684 28782264
>> Swap: 16777212 1064704 15712508
>>
>> The guest is configured with 8GB memory.
>>
>> [later] I had a very vague memory that I needed to fiddle with the domain xml
file.
>> I restored /etc/libvirt/qemu/e4.xml from backup and compared and sure it was
different.
>>
>> I used
>> $ sudo virsh edit e4
>> and set the <video> stanza to say
>> <model type='qxl' ram='131072' vram='131072'
vgamem='32768' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
>> where it originally said
>> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536'
vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
>> Now lxdm starts OK.
>>
>> Audio sync still bad. Video barely keeps up. Probably similar to virtio mode.
>>
>> I will run this way until I get an Xorg crash, then switch to virtio to see if it
is better.
>>
>
> OK.... I forgot to ask. This is F34 installed from what Live Image?
This system was installed too many years ago to remember and upgraded every year.
I see. What desktop and display manager?
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