VM hang: how to get latest sources

2013-09-28 Thread Ross Boylan
the -cpu argument to see if that helps. Details of the crashes are at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724798. Any ideas about what's going on? How can I capture more useful diagnostic information? Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm

How to share filesystem

2013-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms) Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: How to share filesystem

2013-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:24 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:38:39 -0700 schrieb Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu: I would like to have access to the same file system from the host and the guest. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, considering ease of use

Re: How to share filesystem

2013-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
or newer, and Lenny uses 2.6.26 and backports only has 2.6.32. Ross 在 2013年9月25日,3:03,shendl1...@gmail.com 写道: You。can use. Virtio-9p. In. Linux. 发自我的 iPhone 在 2013年9月25日,0:37,Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu 写道: On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:24 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: Am

Re: expanding virtual disk based on lvm

2012-09-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:53 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/28/2012 11:26 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: My vm launches with -hda /dev/turtle/VD0 -hdb /dev/turtle/VD1, where VD0 and VD1 are lvm logical volumes. I used lvextend to expand them, but the VM, started after the expansion, does not seem

expanding virtual disk based on lvm

2012-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
to files that are disk images; I'm not sure if the same procedures apply when a logical volume is the underlying device. The virtual disks each have 3 partitions. Inside the VM software raid produces dm0 from the 2 first partitions and dm1 from the 2 third partitions. Thanks for any help. Ross Boylan

Re: expanding virtual disk based on lvm

2012-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:15 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: My vm launches with -hda /dev/turtle/VD0 -hdb /dev/turtle/VD1, where VD0 and VD1 are lvm logical volumes. I used lvextend to expand them, but the VM, started

unhandled wrmsr

2010-11-01 Thread Ross Boylan
I built from qemu-kvm-0.13.0.tar.gz on a Debian system with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd642.6.32-26 (but otherwise basically the stable/lenny version) and now see Oct 26 16:57:38 markov kernel: [ 5757.672426] kvm: 23063: cpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x198 data 0 Oct 26 16:57:38 markov

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:55 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:57:54PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:59 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: * desktop is 1024 x 720 1024x768 and this is what the default is today anyway

Re: KVM usability

2010-03-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:59 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: * desktop is 1024 x 720 1024x768 and this is what the default is today anyway. That was not my experience, as reported in my post a few days ago (800x600 max resolution), nor is it the experience reported in the message that

800x600 max resolution

2010-02-25 Thread Ross Boylan
because the VM's virtual network card stops working after it's been up awhile--a separate problem. Thanks. Ross Boylan Xorg.0.log.bz2 Description: application/bzip

Re: vnc mouse trouble; -usbdevice tablet no help [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 07:17 -0500, Javier Guerra wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: Previous advice (to me and others) was to use -usbdevice tablet. I've tried that, and a variety of kvm/qemu versions, but no luck. check your guest's X11 config

vnc mouse trouble; -usbdevice tablet no help

2010-02-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I have been unable to get the real mouse and the virtualized mouse to stay together when using kvm with linux host, guest and client. Previous advice (to me and others) was to use -usbdevice tablet. I've tried that, and a variety of kvm/qemu versions, but no luck. Can anyone suggest what to do,

Re: XP blue screen with qemu-kvm-0.11.0

2009-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 15:21 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: My XP VM was working OK, and then started crashing shortly after it logged me in. There were no obvious changes at the time. I built the latest qemu-kvm, but the problem persists. I am running 32 bit XP

Re: XP blue screen with qemu-kvm-0.11.0

2009-10-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 15:21 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: My XP VM was working OK, and then started crashing shortly after it logged me in. There were no obvious changes at the time. I built the latest qemu-kvm, but the problem persists. I am running 32 bit XP

XP blue screen with qemu-kvm-0.11.0

2009-10-30 Thread Ross Boylan
is a read-write snapshot on turtle/XP00. The snapshot looks healthy, with about 50% allocated to the snapshot. The snapshot volume is 10G and the original is 50G. The VM starts fine if I point it to XP00 instead of XP01. Any ideas or suggestions? Ross Boylan P.S. What are the different files in my

Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?

2009-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:51 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 says to build kvm I should get the latest kvm-release.tar.gz. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Downloads says If you want to use the latest version of KVM kernel modules

Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?

2009-10-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 18:42 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/30/2009 04:21 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/HOWTO1 says to build kvm I should get the latest kvm-release.tar.gz. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Downloads says If you want to use the latest version of KVM

kvm or qemu-kvm?

2009-09-29 Thread Ross Boylan
/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599.; That page shows the latest version is qemu-kvm-0.11.0.tar.gz. The most recent kvm-release.tar.gz appears to be for kvm-88. So which file should I start from? Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body

Re: losing mouse location with vnc

2009-09-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 11:48 +0200, Kenni Lund wrote: 2009/9/12 Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu: When I try to use a (Linux) VM via vnc there appear to be two mouse locations at once. One is the pointer displayed on the screen; the other is the shown as a little box by krdc when I select

out of memory error leads to unbootable VM

2009-06-02 Thread Ross Boylan
?). It probably did run out of virtual RAM, since kvm started (inadvertently) with the default RAM. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks. Ross Boylan -- 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

Re: out of memory error leads to unbootable VM

2009-06-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 19:27 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: I had a VM running Linux. While running that SAS installer the kernel ran out of memory and killed the installer. After that, any attempt to run a binary inside the VM produced cannot execute binary file. The log

Re: XP smp using a lot of CPU

2009-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
nasically doing a reinstall. The system now seems to be hung up. I'm probably going to end up trying a fresh install; I'll report more results when I have them. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:01:11PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:56 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Ross Boylan wrote

Re: XP smp using a lot of CPU [SOLVED]

2009-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Using ACPI fixes the problem; CPU useage is now quite low. Start line was sudo vdeq kvm -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=52:54:a0:12:01:00 \ -net vde,vlan=1,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl \ -boot d -cdrom /usr/local/backup/XPProSP3.iso \ -std-vga -hda /dev/turtle/XP00 \ -soundhw es1370

Re: XP smp using a lot of CPU

2009-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
was running with -no-acpi. Various docs recommended this for Windows performance, but your comment reminded me that acpi is (I think) required for multiprocessors. I'll be in where I can check on this later today. Thanks. Ross On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote

Re: XP smp using a lot of CPU

2009-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:56 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: I just installed XP into a new VM, specifying -smp 2 for the machine. According to top, it's using nearly 200% of a cpu even when I'm not doing anything. Is this real CPU useage, or just a reporting problem (just

Re: Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for all the info. I have one follow up. On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:07 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: As I install software onto a system I want to preserve its state--just the disk state---at various points so I can go back. What is the best way to do this? LVM snapshots. Read

XP smp using a lot of CPU

2009-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
. Please cc me on responses. Thanks for any assistance. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 r...@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San

Best choice for copy/clone/snapshot

2009-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
snapshot also accesses these facilities. Yours in confusion :) Ross P.S. Please cc me. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 r...@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150

bridges

2009-05-07 Thread Ross Boylan
? I'm running a 2.6.29 kernel on Debian Lenny with kvm 72+dfsg-5~lenny1. Version 84+dfsg-2 is available in experimental. Is there much to be gained by going with the more recent version? Please cc me; I'm not on the list. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: bridges

2009-05-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 11:13 -0600, Cam Macdonell wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: I'm trying to understand bridging with KVM, but am still puzzled. I think that the recommended bridging with TAP means that packets from the VM will end up going out the host card attached to the default gateway