Re: XenServer 6.2 tools for FreeBSD 9 'Guest'?

2013-08-29 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 28 August 2013 13:02 -0400 Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: Try the xe-guest-utilities which uses xen-tools. You may have to hack /usr/local/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs near the bottom to provide a MinorVersion and/or MicroVersion higher than the default to get the hypervisor

Console 'lag'?

2013-08-29 Thread Karl Pielorz
So we've got our test FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 amd64 system running under Xen Server 6.2 - with the xen 'guest' tools enabled (i.e. Xen Server can see it can suspend / resume the guest etc.) We've noticed the console under XenCenter 'lags' sometimes - or, more accurately it doesn't update until you

Snapshots with 'disk and memory' take a very long time? / calcru: runtime went backwards

2013-08-29 Thread Karl Pielorz
Now we've got the ability to take snapshots with 'memory' - they seem to take a very long time... Setup is FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 amd64 XENHVM system running under Xen Server 6.2, on a reasonably fast machine (all SSD storage). In XenCenter a 'disk snapshot' completes in 3 seconds, however

Re: Snapshots with 'disk and memory' take a very long time? / calcru: runtime went backwards

2013-08-29 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 29 August 2013 11:13 +0100 Karl Pielorz kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk wrote: Also once the snapshot is complete the console starts filling with lots of: calcru: runtime went backwards from 752 usec to 717 usec for pid X (Lots of values for 'from' and 'to' and lots, i.e. all PID's).

Re: XenServer 6.2 tools for FreeBSD 9 'Guest'?

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013, at 3:36, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 28 August 2013 13:02 -0400 Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: Try the xe-guest-utilities which uses xen-tools. You may have to hack /usr/local/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs near the bottom to provide a MinorVersion and/or

[CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head. The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff I will continue my testing today and commit it tonight unless I hear complaints.

Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 29/08/13 18:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head. The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff I will continue my testing today and

Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 29/08/13 21:15, Colin Percival wrote: On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head. The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff I

Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Colin Percival
On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head. The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff I will continue my testing today and

Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head. The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here:

Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

2013-08-29 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: In sys/x86/xen/hvm.c: +/** + * If non-zero, the hypervisor has been configured to use a direct + * IDT event callback to the + */ This comment seems to be missing part of its Fixed. -- Justin