[Bug 1914117] Re: Short files returned via FTP on Qemu with various architectures and OSes

[Chris Pinnock]

Apologies.


Host OS is Big Sur Mac OS X latest - with Xcode latest. Qemu is 5.2 - tar ball 
directly from the website.

- Compile Qemu on Mac OS/Big Sur - completely stock build :  install Ninja, 
mkdir build  && cd build && ../configure && make && make install
- But also the issue is with the binary in home-brew (e.g. brew install Qemu) - 
both methods get me to the same problem.

* Installed NetBSD/amd64 or i386 or OpenBSD/i386. 
Qemu-image create -f raw image 10G
qmu-system-ARCH -m 256M -hda image -cdrom “netbsd.iso”  -boot d -net user  -net 
nic

(For i386 & amd64 I tend to add -nographic for the installer)

* Run the image:
Qmu-system-ARCH -m 256M -hda $IMAGE -net user -net nic

Also NetBSD/arm64 has the issue using their image.
qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a53 -smp 4 -m 4g \
      -drive if=none,file=netbsd-disk-arm64.img,id=hd0 -device 
virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
      -netdev type=user,id=net0 -device 
virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55 \
      -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -nographic

* The issue seems to be downloading large files. 
In the host OS two files that seem to tickle the bug often are:

* ftp -a http://cpan.pair.com/src/5.0/perl-5.32.1.tar.xz
On NetBSD this file seems to be one byte shorter than it should be. On arm64 is 
was several bytes shorter.

* ftp -a ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.16.11/bind-9.16.11.tar.xz
Also seems to tickle the bug

I saw this while trying to use pkgsrc on NetBSD. Saw this on Amd64, i386
and arm64. Tried OpenBSD to rule out NetBSD as the problem. OpenBSD/i386
sees the same issue (ftp returns short read and file is a couple of
bytes smaller).

The screenshot is from amd64 - a fresh boot this morning running on a
fairly idle host.

Kind regards
Chris

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Title:
  Short files returned via FTP on Qemu with various architectures and
  OSes

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  
  Qemu 5.2 on Mac OS X Big Sur.

  I originally thought that it might be caused by the home-brew version of 
Qemu, but this evening I have removed the brew edition and compiled from 
scratch (using Ninja & Xcode compiler). 
  Still getting the same problem,.

  On the following architectures: 
  arm64, amd64 and sometimes i386 running NetBSD host OS; 
  i386 running OpenBSD host OS:

  I have seen a consistent problem with FTP returning short files. The
  file will be a couple of bytes too short. I do not believe this is a
  problem with the OS. Downloading the perl source code from CPAN does
  not work properly, nor does downloading bind from isc. I've tried this
  on different architectures as above.

  (Qemu 4.2 on Ubuntu/x86_64 with NetBSD/i386 seems to function fine. My
  gut feel is there is something not right on the Mac OS version of Qemu
  or a bug in 5.2 - obviously in the network layer somewhere. If you
  have anything you want me to try, please let me know - happy to help
  get a resolution.)

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