CPU Overcommitting question

2014-07-18 Thread Riccardo Brunetti
that vCPU(VM1) + vCPU(VM2) total number of physical cores (12) (both VMs have 12 vCPUs) (ie. 16+16) According to your experience which would be the best one? Thank you very much. Kind Regards. B. Riccardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message

Re: CPU Overcommitting question

2014-07-18 Thread riccardo . brunetti
Hi Paolo, thanks for the prompt reply. On 2014-07-18 17:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 18/07/2014 15:06, Riccardo Brunetti ha scritto: 1) Assign vCPUs so that vCPU(VM1) + vCPU(VM2) = total number of physical cores (12) (both VMs have 12 vCPUs) (ie. 8+4) 2) Assign vCPUs so that vCPU(VM1

Re: live migration problems.

2012-03-31 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
ifdown and ifup of the bridge is sufficient to enable the new delay config ? thank you Rick On 3/30/12 11:58 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Riccardo Veraldiriccardo.vera...@cnaf.infn.it To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:45:47 PM Subject

Re: live migration problems.

2012-03-31 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Thank you very much, this solved my problem, not even 1 ping is lost! I did not find this hint in the documentation though. Really thanks again Riccardo On 3/30/12 11:58 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote: - Original Message - From: Riccardo Veraldiriccardo.vera...@cnaf.infn.it To: kvm

live migration problems.

2012-03-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I have problems with live migration. I have several VMs in a CentOS 6.2 cluster environment. When I migrate one virtual machine from nodeA to nodeB the migration goes smoothly but in the same time the VM is migrated an external ping cannot reach the VM. I ping the VM before migration

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-23 Thread Riccardo
-- Original Message --- From: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com To: Riccardo andrighetto.ricca...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sun, 23 May 2010 14:38:42 +0300 Subject: Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world On 05/21/2010 07:47 PM, Riccardo

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-23 Thread Riccardo
-- Original Message --- From: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com To: Riccardo andrighetto.ricca...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sun, 23 May 2010 16:30:06 +0300 Subject: Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world On 05/23/2010 03:12 PM, Riccardo

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-22 Thread Riccardo
with kernel =2.6.32 Best regards, Riccardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-21 Thread Riccardo
succefully. The problem show always with all kernels =2.6.32 I have setup something wrong in kernel? I post the .config in the previous email. Best regards, Riccardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-21 Thread Riccardo
-- Original Message --- From: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com To: Riccardo andrighetto.ricca...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:21:20 +0300 Subject: Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world On 05/21/2010 04:16 PM, Riccardo

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-21 Thread Riccardo
-- Original Message --- From: Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com To: Riccardo andrighetto.ricca...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:35:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world On Friday, May 21, 2010 10:46

Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-19 Thread Riccardo
problems. There is a limit max cpus for -smp ? for the total of the VMs running in the server? Any suggestions? It's possible to enable a log for what service? Best regards, Riccardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

virtio-win problem

2010-05-06 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers. I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start the machine pressing F8 every time at each reboot bypassing the checking of signed certified

Re: Very bad Speed with Virtio-net

2010-01-07 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
I have similar results, like yours, using CentOS 5.4 x86_64 I do not think it is possible to gain more than this right now... or better I wish it could be possible If you can get better result please let me know Rick Benjamin Schweikert wrote: Hello everybody, this is my first post on a

serial console

2009-12-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
hello, how is possible ins ome way to have access to serial console using libvirt ? until now I used quemu-kvm started inside a screen process. but now I am managing my kvm machines with libvirt and in this way I have no access to a serial console. IS there some way to do it ? thanks Rick

Re: simple networking howto

2009-12-29 Thread Riccardo
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 With this lines it isn't necessary the iptables rules. Best regards, Riccardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

asymmetric performance for network I/O

2009-10-06 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I did some tsts with KVM virtual machines. I gan good results on gigabit interface with inbound traffic, I get almost gigabit saturation (1Gb/s). I have lower perforance outbound that is around 500Mbit/s. Is it normal in your opinion ? I mean is there some hard coded limit for network I/O

how to manage KVM guests with libvirt ?

2009-06-01 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I have always created my guests by hand with qemu-kvm syntax. Is there a way to control and manage KVM guests with libvirt without being forced to create the guest with virtmanager or with virtsh ? what if I post a guest from XEN to KVM, how to manage it with libvirt ? thanks Rick --

virtio disk and network performances

2009-04-29 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I am little bit disappointed about virtio perormance. speaking about virtio disk performance I get about the same performances of non-virtio quests. I am using centos 5.3 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 as host and the same centos 5.3 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 as kvm guests with virtio backported to

problems with guests time and date

2009-04-22 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I have a problem. my host with KVM has correct date set. All the quests has a date 2 hours disaligned, and everytime they boot I must ntpdate hte KVM guests. How to solve this problem ? guest at boot time 22 Apr 09:08:02 ntpdate[1901]: step time server x.y.z.t offset 7297.100104 sec

how to convert manual vm to libvirtd management

2009-04-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I have always created my VM under kvm manually starting them from a .sh script: for example machine called abbone # abbone.sh screen qemu-kvm -nographic -hda ./abbone.img -m 512 -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=00:16:3e:05:00:07 -net tap -name abbone -vnc :0 I use screen so that I am

kvm network performance

2009-02-10 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I am using kvm83 on Centos 5.2 I did some iperf test on my kvm guest and I got the following results over a 1GB connection: ~650Mbit/s inbound ~250Mbit/s outbound that is performance appears to be asymmetric. Is this normal ? The inbound data flow is quite impressive as performance

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2009-02-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
hello, I configured my guests runing on KVM83 CentOS 5.2 to run in serial console mode. it works and I use screen to manage multiple consoles. The problem is that when I start a guest on the serial console I got this message repeating few times before the guest effectively start booting.

kvm and cpu type

2009-01-22 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello Iam using kvm83 on CentOS5.2 my system has 2x dual Core intel CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5110 @ 1.60GHz asdetected by Centos. If I start kvm-qemu with no CPU option everythign works and hte guest machine detects cpu as QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 iv I run qemu-kvm -cpu