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VhostNet Testing
Configuration
Guest : { RHEL3.9z(only 32) | RHEL4.8z | RHEL5.4z | WinXP(only 32) | WinVista | Win2k3 | Win2k8 | Win2k8R2 }
NicModel: { rtl8139 | virtio | e1000 }
Vhost : { on | off }
$ qemu-kvm -drive file=$Guest.img,boot=on,if=... \
-net nic,model=$NicModel,netdev=foo \
-netdev tap,id=foo,ifname=msttap0,script=/ifup,downscript=no,vhost=$VHost
Testcases
1. data transmission/receving
* create an 5G file in the host
dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=1024k count=5000
* boot the virtual machine
qemu-kvm ......
* determine the guest ip address: guest_ip
* determine the host ip address: host_ip
* create an 5G file in the guest:
dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=1024k count=5000
* scp the host file into guest:
scp zero root@guest_ip:/tmp
* in the mean time, scp the guest file into host:
scp zero root@host_ip:/tmp
* wait until both transferring to complete
* ping the guest in host:
ping -c 10 $guest_ip
* ths packet loss ratio should be zero
2. ping test: ping the guest with different packetsize and interval
for each nic in the guest, do the following steps
* determine the guest ip address: guest_ip
* determine the ping counts: ping_count
* packet_size = [ 0, 1, 48, 64, 512, 1440, 1500, 1505, 4096, 4192, 32767, 65507 ]
* interval = [ 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001 ]
* ping the guest with the following commands:
ping guest_ip -s foreach packet_size -i foreach interval -c ping_count
* determine the packet loss ratio, if the packet loss ratio is not zero, fail the whole testcases
* ping the guest with the 65508 size
ping guest_ip -s 65508 -i foreach interval -c ping_count
* determin the packet loss ratio, if the packet loss ratio is not one hundred, fail the whole testecases
* flood ping the guest with 10 minutes and then ping the guest to see if could still get zero packet loss, if not, fail the test cases.
ping guest_ip -f -s foreach packet_size
* search panic/oops in the dmesg and /var/log/messages, if found any fail the whole testcases
3. jumbo frame testing: test the function of jumbo frame support
* determine the nicmodel of the guest: nicmodel
* determine the max frame length supported by the nicmodel: max_frame_length (mtu):
* determine the max icmp packet length support by the nic_model: _max_icmp_packet_size = max_frame_length - 28:
* packet_size = [ 0, 1, 48, 64, 512, 1440, 1500, 1505, 4096, 4192, 32767, 65507 ]
* start the virtual machine with interface name of IFNAME
* determine the bridge whcih IFNAME is connected: bridge
qemu-kvm -net nic,model=nicmodel,macaddr={macaddr},ifname=IFNAME -net tap ...
* change the MTU of the tap device in the host
ifconfig IFNAME mtu 65521
* change the MTU of the ethernet device in the guest
ifconfig eth0 mtu _max_frame_length_
* if needed, add a dedicated route entry in the host [Resolution]
route add guest_ip IFNAME
* if needed, add an static entry for guest nic
arp -s guest_ip guest_mac
* ping the guest in the host with path mtu discovery
ping -M do guest_ip -s max_icmp_packet_size -c 10
* check the packet loss ratio, if the ratio is not zero, fail the whole cases.
* execute the following script in the guest:
while true; do ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500; ifconfig eth0 mtu max_fram_length done
and in the same time flood ping the guest in the host for five minutes.
ping -f -s max_icmp_packet_size
* ping the guest in the host and see if the packet loss ratio is zero, if not, fail the whole case
ping -c 2 guest_ip
* restore the mtu
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
4. promisc mode testing: transfering data in promisc mode
* start the virtual machine
* create an 1G file in the host
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/random bs=1024k count=1000
* get che checksum of the random file
md5sum /tmp/random
* open a guest session and execute the following command to switch between promisc and non-promisc mode
while true; do
ifconfig eth0 promisc
sleep 0.01
ifconfig eth0 -promisc
sleep 0.01
done
* in the meantime, scp the random file to the guest
scp /tmp/random root@guest_ip:/tmp
* get the md5sum in the guest
md5sum /tmp/random
* compare the md5sum for both guest and host, if they are different, fail the whole testcase
* kill the previous script in the guest
* restore the nic to non-promisc mode
ifconfig eth0 -promisc
5. PXE booting
* start the virtual machie with interface name IFNAME
qemu-kvm -net nic,ifname=IFNAME,... -net tap ...
* using tcpdump to snoop the tftp traffic
tcpdump -l -n port 69 -i IFNAME > tcpdump
* wait for 2 minutes and search tftp packet in the tcpdump
grep tftp tcpdump
* if could find tftp in the tcpdump, testcase pass then fail
6. 802.1q vlan testing
* boot two virtual machines
* log into first virtual machine, and config the vlan through: ( join the vlan 10 )
vconfig add eth0 10;ifconfig eht0.10 192.168.123.11
* log into second virtual machine, and config the vlan through: ( join the vlan 20 )
vconfig add eth0 20;ifconfig eth0.20 192.168.123.12
* ping the second virtual machine in the first virtual machine and check the packet loss, if the packet loss is not 100%, fail the whole test case
ping -c 10 192.168.123.12
* log into second virtual machine, and config the vlan through: (join the vlan 10)
vconfig rem eth0.20;vconfig add eth0 10;ifconfig eth0.10 192.168.123.12
* ping the second virtual machine in the first virtualmachine and check the packet loss, if the packet loss is not 0%, fail the whole test case
* for each guest (both first and second), remove the vlan config
vconfig rem eth0.10
7. multicast testing
* boot a virtual machine
* log into this virtual machine, and join it three multicast groups
ip maddr add 01:00:5e:c0:01:64 eth0
ip maddr add 02:00:5e:c0:01:64 eth0
ip maddr add 03:00:00:00:40:00 eth0
01:00:5e:c0:01:64 is a IP Multicast macaddress
02:00:5e:c0:01:64 is a General macaddress
03:00:00:00:40:00 is a Lan Manage Multicast mac address
* listen the multicast packets using tcpdump on this virtual machine
tcpdump -ep ether multicast 2>/dev/null |tee /tmp/multicast.tmp 1>/dev/null
* produce three random date packets and send to three multicast macaddress on host
packet1 --> 01:00:5e:c0:01:64
packet2 --> 02:00:5e:c0:01:64
packet3 --> 03:00:00:00:40:00
* sleep 20 seconds, and kill tcpdump processer in the virtual machine
* copy the tcpdump result to host, and check if the tcpdump's result contains that three packets.
grep content[i] /tmp/multicast.tmp
8. fragmentation offload test
* boot a virtual machine
* log into this virtual machine, and disable gso function of nic, only enable tso. if you check the function of gso, just disable tso and enable gso
ethtool -K eth0 gso off
ethtool -K etho tso on
* check if success to setup tso/gso on guest
ethtool -k eth0
* listen tcp packets on host
nc -l 5334 |tee /tmp/frag_offload.dd >/dev/null
* use dd to create a 10M file on guest
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/frag_offload.dd bs=10M count=1
* use tcpdump capture the packets on data link layer on guest
tcpdump -e port 5334 1 >/tmp/frag_offload.tcpdump 2>/dev/null
* sent the 10M file to host
cat /tmp/frag_offlaod.dd |nc $hostIP 5334
* check if there exists some packet larger than MTU
* compute md5sum of /tmp/frag_offload.dd on host and the virtual machine, and check if they are same
md5sum /tmp/frag_offload.dd
9. driver load/unload testing
* boot the guests and determine the driver for the guest nics: driver
ethtool -i eth0 | grep driver | awk '{print $2}'
* download and install prozilla in the guests : may need libncurses5 ( libncurses5-dev )
wget http://10.66.70.67:3000/attachments/52/prozilla-1.3.7.3.tar.gz
tar -zxf prozilla-1.3.7.3.tar.gz
cd prozilla-1.3.7.3
./configure
make install
* open a guest session and run the following scripts
while true; do
ifconfig eth0 down
sleep 0.1
modprobe -r driver
modprobe driver
ifconfig eth0 up
sleep 0.1
done
* in the meantime, open a guest session and download the the kernel archives from lkml.org
proz -k 10 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.31.5.tar.bz2
* kill the scripts
* tar the kernel archives, if any errors during the extracting, fail the whole testcase
tar -zxf linux-2.6.31.5.tar.bz2
10. s4/s3 suspending for guest nics
* determine the ip address of guest: guest_ip
* boot the guest
* suspend the guest into s3/s4
echo mem|disk > /sys/power/state
* waken from s3/s4 and test the virtual nics through ping, and determine the packet loss ratio, if the ratio is not zero, fail the whole test
ping _guest_ip -c 10
11. stress testing with netperf
* boot the virtual machine
* determine the test time for stress t seconds
* determine the ip address of the guest: ip_guest
* determine the ip address of the host: ip_host
* install netperf2 in both guest and host
* run netperf server in guest
./netserver
* run netperf client in the host to test TCP
./netperf -H ip_guest -l t
* wait until the netperf to finish
* run netperf client in host to test UDP
./netperf -H ip_guest -l t -t UDP_STREAM
* wait until the netperf to finish
* run netperf server in the host
./netserver
* run the netperf client in the guest
./netperf -H ip_host -l t
* wait until the netperf to finish
* run netperf client in host to test UDP
./netperf -H ip_host -l t -t UDP_STREAM
* wait until the netperf to finish
* ping the guest in host, the packet loss should be zero
ping -c 10 ip_guest
* search dmesg in guest and see if there have calltrace
12. Multiple Nics Stress
* determine the test time: testtime
* boot the virtual machine with three different modles of virtual nics: 8139,virtio,e1000
qemu-kvm -net nic,model=rtl8139... -net tap -net nic,model=e1000,... -net tap...... -net nic,model=virtio,...... -net tap...... ...
* Adjust the arp policy: use the dedicated interface hw addr to announce and response the arp packet
echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/arp_ignore
echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/arp_announce
* Set the max MTU for each nics
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 ( for rtl8139 )
ifconfig eth1 mtu 16110 ( for e1000 )
ifconfig eth2 mtu 65535 ( for virtio )
* determine the guest ip address: ip1 ip2 ip3
* In the host, parallel flood ping each nics through the following commands and last for testtime seconds.
ping -f ip1 -s {size from 0 to 1500}
ping -f ip2 -s {size from 0 to 16110}
ping -f ip3 -s {size form 0 to 65507}
* ping each nics to find whether it still work, the packet loss should be zero.
ping -c 10 ip1
ping -c 10 ip2
ping -c 10 ip3
13. nic bonding test
* determine the four nic models used in the test model1,model2,model3,model4
qemu-kvm -net nic,model=model1,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0 -net nic,model=model2,vlan=1 -net tap,vlan=1 -net nic,model=model3,vlan=2 -net tap,vlan=2 -net nic,model=model4,vlan=3 -net tap,vlan=3 -m 1024 ......
* configure the bonding interfaces configuration files:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-{ethnum}
DEVICE={ethnum}
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
* modprobe the bonding module
modprobe bonding
* re-start the network interfaces
service netowrk restart
* use ifconfig to see if bond0 device have been setup and get the ip address ip_bond0
ifconfig bond0
* in the guest run the following scripts to down/up the interface eth0,eth1,eth2,eth3
while true do;
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 down
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth2 down
ifconfig eth2 up
ifconfig eth3 down
ifconfig eth3 up
done
* in the mean time ping the guest in host with the following command, the packet loss ratio should be zero
ping _ip_bond0_ -c 1000
* then flood ping the guest for two minutes
ping -f _ip_bond0_
* and then ping the guest, the packet loss ratio should be zero
ping -c 100 _ip_bond0_
* the packet loss should be zero.