Re: 8 NIC limit

2010-10-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, linux_...@proinbox.com wrote: Hello list: I'm working on a project that calls for the creation of a firewall in KVM. While adding a 20-interface trunk of virtio adapters to bring in a dual 10GB bond, I've discovered an 8 NIC limit in QEMU. I found the

Re: Question on stopping KVM start at boot

2010-03-12 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:59 PM, sati...@pacific.net.hk wrote: $ cat /etc/init.d/qemu-kvm | grep modprobe        if modprobe $module .        if modprobe $module        then                log_end_msg 0        else                log_end_msg 1                exit 1        fi      

Re: Question on stopping KVM start at boot

2010-03-10 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Bitman Zhou bitman.z...@sinobot.com.cn wrote: I need to stop KVM starting at boot. I added following 2 lines at the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf blacklist kvm blacklist kvm-amd Reboot PC It doesn't work. $ lsmod | grep kvm kvm_amd          

Re: linux-aio usable?

2010-03-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/08/2010 11:48 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Are there any potential pitfalls? It won't work well unless running on a block device (partition or LVM). What does

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Chris Webb ch...@arachsys.com wrote: I remember about a year ago, someone asserting on the list that -usbdevice tablet was very CPU intensive even when not in use, and should be avoided if mouse support wasn't needed, e.g. on non-graphical VMs. Was that actually

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote: Here's my experience with it:  - qemu-kvm starts up with a miniature resolution by default. 640x480 - on my   1680x1050 laptop screen. It's so small that initially i even overlooked   that i started it. It should multiplex

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: On 02/27/2010 04:56 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:  - But i'm a more advanced user so i dont need help screens, i knew that the    go full screen hotkey is:            LeftCtrl-LeftALT-F    ... except that it is a one-way

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:59 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 03/01/2010 03:12 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: kvm -m 512 -cdrom /home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/iso/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso -drive file=/home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-0086OD.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -usb

Re: VMs crashing - Ubuntu 8.04, KVM84, libvirt 0.6.1

2010-01-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues l...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 11:26 +, Yann Hamon wrote: Hello list, I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with the kvm84 and libvirt 0.6.1 backports. I am experiencing regular crashes of my Vms - well, more like  freezes than

Re: VMs crashing - Ubuntu 8.04, KVM84, libvirt 0.6.1

2010-01-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:11 +, Yann Hamon wrote: Thanks for the pointer, Lucas. I have worked with Yann to get a better KVM onto Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, more or less at his request. At the time, I backported the then-current kvm-84 from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), as a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.2

2010-01-20 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: qemu-kvm-0.12.2 is now available.  This release is based on the upstream qemu 0.12.2, plus kvm-specific enhancements.  Please see the original qemu 0.12.2 release announcement for details. Thank

Re: KVM developer call minutes (Jan 19)

2010-01-19 Thread Dustin Kirkland
) strcpy (buf-release, qemu_uname_release); -- 1.6.5 qemu-img: improve error reporting Use strerror to provide a better error message when qemu-img fails. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/418112 Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released

2009-12-20 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/15/2009 05:21 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball ... I think this option would help keep us all on the same page.  But I could live with pointers to the submodules

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released

2009-12-15 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:10 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source. Right, sorry I was ambiguous. We have several options: ... - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball ... I think this option would help keep us all on

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released

2009-12-14 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 is now available.  This release is is based on the upstream qemu 0.12.0-rc2, plus kvm-specific enhancements.  Please see the original qemu 0.12.0-rc2 release announcement for details. This release can be

Re: Hot-adding disk on VM

2009-11-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: According to I see in Launchpad, there is a fix released for Qemu and qemu-kvm (Ubuntu). It's fix committed in QEMU, and Fix Released in Ubuntu's qemu-kvm. We in Ubuntu have released version of qemu-kvm-0.11.0 that

Re: [PATCH] whitelist host virtio networking features [was Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older ...]

2009-11-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:15 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: Canonical's Ubuntu Security Team will be filing a CVE on this issue, since there is a bit of an attack vector here, and since qemu-kvm-0.11.0 is generally

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] whitelist host virtio networking features [was Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older ...]

2009-11-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:55 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: They can exit qemu via an ACPI shutdown. I don't see the difference. An ACPI shutdown is triggered by an authenticated user inside of the guest. The present exit is triggered by any other anonymous user on the network, with the ability

Ubuntu Patches [was Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network]

2009-10-30 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Tsai scottt...@gmail.com wrote: What's the easiest way to see the patches to qemu that Canonical carries for the different Ubuntu releases? (I think http://patches.ubuntu.com/ only diffs against Debian for the last stable Ubuntu release?) Correct. That

Re: [PATCH] whitelist host virtio networking features [was Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older ...]

2009-10-30 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com wrote: whitelist host virtio networking features This patch is a followup to 8eca6b1bc770982595db2f7207c65051572436cb, fixing crashes when guests with 2.6.25 virtio drivers have saturated virtio network connections

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:25 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:11 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Mark McLoughlin wrote: tap_set_offload(csum: 1, tso4: 1, tso6: 1, ecn: 1) being called and get an mtu of 1500 on virbr0 using his birdge.sh script.

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:00 +0800, Scott Tsai wrote: Excerpts from Mark McLoughlin's message of Thu Oct 29 17:16:43 +0800 2009: Assuming this is something like the virtio-net in 2.6.26, there was no receivable buffers support so (as Scott points out) it must be that we've read a packet from

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:16 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: Hi Dustin, On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 14:22 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: I believe that we have identified a regression in qemu-kvm-0.11.0. Regression versus which previous version of qemu-kvm? Okay, sorry for the ambiguity. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:34 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: In the mean time, Hardy's kernel is in git here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=summary I'll save you a few clicks... http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/virtio_net.c;h

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:48 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: Ah, it all makes sense now. I was getting confused between HOST_* and GUEST_* this should have been: features |= (1 VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC); features |= (1 VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_CSUM); features |= (1

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:01 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: Sorry, should be VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM ... the rest is correct Brilliant! Works like a champ. I'll send a patch in a subsequent email. Would you add a signed-off-by (or whatever), Mark? :-Dustin signature.asc Description: This is a

[PATCH] whitelist host virtio networking features [was Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older ...]

2009-10-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
minutes. Previously, this crashed immediately. Now, the guest does not crash and maintains network connectivity throughout the test. Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com Tested-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com diff --git

qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-28 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I believe that we have identified a regression in qemu-kvm-0.11.0. The kvm process crashes for older guests with virtio networking, when the guest's incoming network connection is saturated. The subject guest is Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, 2.6.24 kernel with virtio backports. For your convenience, I

Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

2009-10-28 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com wrote: I have not reproduced the problem:  a) by saturating the guest's outgoing network  b) with newer guests ( = 2.6.27 )  c) on kvm-84 on the host d) or by using e1000, or rtl8139 NIC models. :-Dustin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [STABLE PATCH] hotplug: fix scsi hotplug.

2009-10-14 Thread Dustin Kirkland
disappears. Also note that I did not replace the bios.bin, as it appears to me that the qemu-kvm-0.11 bios.bin is working properly. Tested-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-13 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that I have removed the benchmark from discussion, we are now looking at semantics of small writes followed by ... And quoting from Dustin === I have tried this, exactly as you have described.  The tests

Re: Hot-adding disk on VM

2009-10-11 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, all! On Saturday, 22 August 2009 10:59:47 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: According to I see in this document [1], is necessary that is loaded two modules in the guest: acpiphp and pci_hotplug. The pci_hotplug

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-09 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: The benchmark used was the sqlite subtest in the phoronix test suite. My awareness and involvement is beyond reading a magazine article, I can elaborate if needed, but I don't believe it is necessary. Process for

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-09 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: Can I ask you to do the following...  1) Re-affirm that Ubuntu does not carry any non-stream patches and the build command and possibly any other unusual patches or commandline options.  This should push it back onto

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] dynamic scsi disk attach seems to be broken in qemu(-kvm)-0.11, libvirt-0.7.1

2009-10-09 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: I would like some advice on how to proceed with this bug, and where the solution lies...in qemu or in libvirt.  Ultimately, I would like the behavior we had in our previous release with kvm-84 and libvirt-0.6.1, where

Re: [libvirt] dynamic scsi disk attach seems to be broken in qemu(-kvm)-0.11, libvirt-0.7.1

2009-10-09 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:57:55PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: Now, all of that said, it is actually possible to hot-add a second scsi device. However, as far as I can tell, this method is not yet supported

dynamic scsi disk attach seems to be broken in qemu(-kvm)-0.11, libvirt-0.7.1

2009-10-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
We're experiencing what we believe to be a regression in qemu-kvm-0.11 and libvirt-0.7.0, from previous versions of kvm-84 and libvirt-0.6.1: Dynamically attaching sdb (a second scsi disk) fails. (Note that I have tested this against libvirt-0.7.1 built from source as well--same results.) Here

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-10-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: When you indicated that you had attempted to reproduce the problem, what mechanism did you use?  Was it Karmic + KVM as the host and Karmic as the guest?  What test did you use? I ran the following in several places:

Re: sync guest calls made async on host - SQLite performance

2009-09-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Tippett tippe...@gmail.com wrote: I would prefer rather than riling against Phoronix or the results as presented, ask questions to seek further information about what was tested rather than writing off all of it as completely invalid. Matthew- If you

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.11.0 released

2009-09-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: qemu-kvm-0.11.0 is now available.  This release is is based on the upstream qemu 0.11.0, plus kvm-specific enhancements. Thanks, Avi. We in Ubuntu have tracked each of the two previous RC's, and we will have this GA version in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.11.0 released

2009-09-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 01:48 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com wrote: qemu-kvm-0.11.0 is now available. This release is is based on the upstream qemu 0.11.0, plus kvm-specific enhancements. Thanks, Avi

Re: Release plan for 0.12.0

2009-09-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote: Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0. I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't think the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out of

[PATCH] update qemu-ifup for modern ip route output

2009-09-17 Thread Dustin Kirkland
/qemu-kvm/+bug/430652 Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com --- kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup b/kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup index 3bf8801..284b176 100755 --- a/kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup +++ b/kvm/scripts

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode

2009-09-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
at 12:31 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode We're seeing segfaults on systems without access to /dev/kvm. It looks like the global kvm_allowed is being set just a little too late in vl.c

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode

2009-09-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Marcelo Tosattimtosa...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:06:38AM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 08:22 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 19:18 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM

[PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode

2009-09-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
in the vl.c main, just after options processing, and solves the segfaults. We're carrying this patch in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha. Please apply upstream, or advise if and why this might not be the optimal solution. Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com Move the kvm_init() call a bit higher

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode

2009-09-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Mark McLoughlinmar...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 12:31 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling back to non-accelerated mode We're seeing segfaults on systems without access to /dev/kvm

Re: KVM-88 broke VirtIO Hard Disks

2009-07-30 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Alexey Eromenkoaerom...@redhat.com wrote: - Marcelo Tosatti mtosa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:37:37AM -0400, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Hi All ! In addition to Floppy controllers KVM-88 also break VirtIO hard disks. (Windows 2003

daily builds of pristine upstream sources for qemu, qemu-kvm, and libvirt

2009-07-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Howdy, developers of qemu, qemu-kvm, and libvirt. I periodically see bug reports on these lists from users of Ubuntu packages of these projects. Since these users are often running some version of the project older than the current development branch, it's more interesting to know if the user

Re: kvm on Ubuntu 8.04 running windows xp sp3: corrupts file system on shutdown?

2009-07-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Yaniv Kaulyk...@redhat.com wrote: On 7/2/2009 6:50 PM, Jon Watte wrote: I'm attempting to set up a Windows XP virtual machine using KVM running on 8.04 LTS x64 or a Core 2 Duo (6550). I have updated all installed packages to the latest available as of a week

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: fix typo in configure

2009-07-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Michael S. Tsirkinm...@redhat.com wrote: Kill extra \). Also escape ! for clarity and bourne shell compatibility. Agreed. Looks like this one was introduced during the last merge from qemu. It bit me too. :-Dustin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

Re: [PATCH] Fix non-KVM build

2009-06-24 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Anthony Liguorialigu...@us.ibm.com wrote: This introduces some #ifdefs in pcspk to fix the build when KVM isn't enabled. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com ---  hw/pcspk.c |   15 +--  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6

Re: [PATCH] Only compile KVM support for matching CPU types

2009-06-24 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: I don't know why this is disabled for qemu-kvm.git. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com --- configure |5 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index

Re: [PATCH] Only compile KVM support for matching CPU types

2009-06-24 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:09 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: # Make sure the target and host cpus are compatible if test ! \( $target_cpu = $cpu -o \ \( $target_cpu = ppcemb -a $cpu = ppc \) -o \ \( $target_cpu = x86_64

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU bug tracker on Launchpad

2009-06-23 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:02 +0300, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/23/09, Anthony Liguori aligu...@us.ibm.com wrote: Dustin Kirkland was kind enough to setup a bug tracker for QEMU on Launchpad. I would like to make this the official QEMU bug tracker unless there is significant objection

Re: Kvm crash when I create a Guest

2009-04-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Alessio Rocchi alessio.roc...@staff.dada.net wrote: I'm Running Ubuntu 8.10, here is the command I use: kvm -net none -m 192 -no-acpi -hda ./gentoo_cleanvm.img.tar.lzma Ubuntu 8.10 uses kvm-72 by default. You might, perhaps, try kvm-84, which is more current and

Re: kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests

2009-04-06 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:43 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: The problem here is that 2.6.24/5 vintage guests are saying they support something they don't. See this for further details: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg00574.html Agreed, understood. And those kernels

kvm-84 + virtio Ubuntu Hardy guests

2009-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Howdy kvm- I'm receiving a heavy volume of Ubuntu Jaunty Beta users reporting that Jaunty hosts running kvm-84 (userspace and kernel) are not able to boot previously-working Hardy guests (2.6.24 kernel) if virtio networking is enabled [1]. Users report that if e1000 is used instead, the guest is

Re: kvm-84 screen corruption

2009-03-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Zhang, Xiantao xiantao.zh...@intel.com wrote: I can confirm it on ia64 platform with kvm-84 and kvm-userspace upstream source.  Another issue is that the text color is not correct. For what it's worth, I was able to fix this in kvm (1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu5) jaunty

Re: kvm-84 screen corruption

2009-02-24 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net wrote: This is most probably fixed in git, commit 7def4ba752cf629043e884dac8541fa5114c4c91 Great. Which git? I checked: * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git And I noticed Debian in your sig, so I

Re: kvm-84 screen corruption

2009-02-24 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: kvm-userspace.git.  That changeset merged against QEMU SVN which is where the fix really happened. Okay, hmm... I've applied this fix (plus another queued one that Anthony sent my way). I'm still seeing the screen

Re: [PATCH] use KVM_UPSTREAM for ppc.

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On 2/13/09, Glauber Costa glom...@redhat.com wrote: ppc should compile with upstream qemu code, so, put these defines in ppc specific code that references kvm functions. We don put them in config.h in this case, since there are files (like vl.c) that includes both kvm.h and qemu-kvm.h,

Re: [PATCH] include qemu-kvm.h at all cases.

2009-02-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On 2/12/09, Glauber Costa glom...@redhat.com wrote: We don't have any kind of kvm support for linux-user targets, but conditionalizing the inclusion of kvm header make linux-user compilation break. And we don't have a reason to prevent that, do we? Ack, again, same problem here. The lack

Re: kvm-83

2009-02-06 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Gioacchino Mendola gioacchino.mend...@gmail.com wrote: but I have some problems, since guest freezes at boot time (at very early stage since it does not print any message on the attached vnc) and /var/log/messages sports the following error message: kvm: