[PATCH] KVM test: Fix two typos in config file

2009-11-18 Thread Yolkfull Chow
Signed-off-by: Yolkfull Chow yz...@redhat.com --- client/tests/kvm/kvm_tests.cfg.sample |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_tests.cfg.sample b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_tests.cfg.sample index ac9ef66..7f37994 100644 ---

Re: kernel bug in kvm_intel

2009-11-18 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, 11/01/2009 08:31 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: Here is the code in question: 3ae7: 75 05 jne 3aeevmx_vcpu_run+0x26a 3ae9: 0f 01 c2vmlaunch 3aec: eb 03 jmp 3af1vmx_vcpu_run+0x26d

guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-11-18 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, If I migrate a virtual machine (2.6.31.6, amd64) from a host with AMD cpu to an Intel host, then the guest is terminated on the old host as expected, but it gets stuck on the new host. Every 60 seconds it prints a message on the virtual console saying BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0

Re: [RFC][PATCH] qemu-kvm: Introduce writeback scope for cpu_synchronize_state

2009-11-18 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/17/2009 06:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: I think we're not on the same page here. As I see it, no interface change is needed at all. It's true that existing kernels don't handle this properly, which is why I said I'm willing to treat it as a bug (and thus the -stable

Re: [PATCH] KVM test: Fix two typos in config file

2009-11-18 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Ok, applied, thanks! On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Yolkfull Chow yz...@redhat.com wrote: Signed-off-by: Yolkfull Chow yz...@redhat.com ---  client/tests/kvm/kvm_tests.cfg.sample |    4 ++--  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git

KVM autotest patch queue report - 11-18-2009

2009-11-18 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Hi folks, I am resuming sending patch queue reports for the KVM test framework. I will heavily base it on the latest autotest's patchwork status. At any time you can see the status of the incoming patches by checking http://patchwork.test.kernel.org/project/autotest/list/ Summary: 4 patches

Re: [RFC] KVM Fault Tolerance: Kemari for KVM

2009-11-18 Thread Yoshiaki Tamura
2009/11/17 Yoshiaki Tamura tamura.yoshi...@lab.ntt.co.jp: Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/16/2009 04:18 PM, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/09/2009 05:53 AM, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: Kemari runs paired virtual machines in an active-passive configuration and

Biweekly KVM Test report, kernel cb59a... qemu c04b2...

2009-11-18 Thread Xu, Jiajun
Hi All, This Weekly KVM Testing Report against latest kvm.git cb59a30c417e6cb45f6522e550307dfe4f6e6836 and qemu-kvm.git c04b2aebf50c7d8cba883b86d1b872ccfc8f2249. The build failure issue is fixed. The VF IRQ source exhausted error is fixed. Live Migration in latest commit cannot work. One New

Re: [RFC][PATCH] qemu-kvm: Introduce writeback scope for cpu_synchronize_state

2009-11-18 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/18/2009 11:50 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: INIT, too. INIT should be handled by queuing up the next mp_state. And clearing the previous queue; otherwise our queue is unbounded. BTW, as we do not inject mp_state changes from user space during runtime, the issue I saw with the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] qemu-kvm: Introduce writeback scope for cpu_synchronize_state

2009-11-18 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/17/2009 06:58 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: That wouldn't be required anymore with the always queue policy. Hmm, unless we need mp_state manipulation analogously to KVM_NMI vs. KVM_SET_VCPU_STATE: The former will queue, the latter write, but may be overwritten by anything queued. If you

Re: [RFC] KVM Fault Tolerance: Kemari for KVM

2009-11-18 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/18/2009 03:28 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: I don't think lmbench is intensive but it's sensitive to memory latency. We'll measure kernel build time with minimum config, and post it later. Here are some quick numbers of parallel kernel compile time. The number of vcpu is 1, just for

Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: clear only essential parts of VirtIOBlockReq on object allocation - RESUBMIT

2009-11-18 Thread Saul Tamari
ok, Below is the patch. This time resent with mutt and hopefully without whitespace changes. This patch reduces the amount of memory being cleared on every virtio-blk IO operation. Improve number of IOPS when using

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make a standalone client to be able to use global_config.ini

2009-11-18 Thread John Admanski
Almost there. Just a couple of minor things. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues l...@redhat.com wrote: In order to make it possible the autotest client to use the global_config.ini configuration files:  * Modified global_config.py to support verifying if the  

[PATCH 2/3] Make a standalone client to be able to use global_config.ini

2009-11-18 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
In order to make it possible the autotest client to use the global_config.ini configuration files: * Modified global_config.py to support verifying if the configuration file is under autotest's root directory, or the client directory * Extended the autotest run method to copy over the

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make a standalone client to be able to use global_config.ini

2009-11-18 Thread John Admanski
Looks good. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues l...@redhat.com wrote: In order to make it possible the autotest client to use the global_config.ini configuration files:  * Modified global_config.py to support verifying if the   configuration file is under autotest's

Re: [Autotest] [PATCH 2/3] Make a standalone client to be able to use global_config.ini

2009-11-18 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Greg, would you mind giving a last review on the patchset before I check this in? On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues l...@redhat.com wrote: In order to make it possible the autotest client to use the global_config.ini configuration files:  * Modified global_config.py to

[ty...@mit.edu: Need a way disable gPXE boot]

2009-11-18 Thread tytso
---BeginMessage--- I recently updated to the latest qemu-kvm git tree (commit c04b2ae) and I ran into the following problem. I want to do a direct Linux boot for some of my testing work, using the -kernel option. Apparently the the gPXE boot code corrupts something in memory or other CPU state

Re: Windows XP Bluescreen when unplugging printer

2009-11-18 Thread Erik Rull
Jim Paris wrote: Erik Rull wrote: Hi all, I want to run an epson inkjet within my windows xp guest. my host has enabled usb 2.0, the USB flashdrive works without any problems. When I plug in the printer (works with the same drivers on a native windows xp!), it is recognized and the status

Re: Windows XP Bluescreen when unplugging printer

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Paris
Erik Rull wrote: Jim Paris wrote: Erik Rull wrote: Hi all, I want to run an epson inkjet within my windows xp guest. my host has enabled usb 2.0, the USB flashdrive works without any problems. When I plug in the printer (works with the same drivers on a native windows xp!), it is

Re: Windows XP Bluescreen when unplugging printer

2009-11-18 Thread Erik Rull
Jim Paris wrote: Erik Rull wrote: Hi Jim, sorry, still a bluescreen - but another one :-) BUGCODE_USBDRIVER is its name. Any other ideas? With USB 1.1 on the host everything is fine, after enabling USB 2.0 in BIOS on the host, USB is faster within the guest, but I have the given Bluescreen

Re: Windows XP Bluescreen when unplugging printer

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Paris
Erik Rull wrote: Jim Paris wrote: Erik Rull wrote: Hi Jim, sorry, still a bluescreen - but another one :-) BUGCODE_USBDRIVER is its name. Any other ideas? With USB 1.1 on the host everything is fine, after enabling USB 2.0 in BIOS on the host, USB is faster within the guest, but I

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: SeaBIOS cdrom regression with Vista

2009-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:19:20AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:21:31PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: qemu-kvm's switch to seabios uncovered a regression with cdrom handling. Vista x64 no longer recognizes the cdrom, while pc-bios still works. Installing works, but

Re: [RFC] KVM Fault Tolerance: Kemari for KVM

2009-11-18 Thread Yoshiaki Tamura
2009/11/18 Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com: On 11/18/2009 03:28 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote: I don't think lmbench is intensive but it's sensitive to memory latency. We'll measure kernel build time with minimum config, and post it later. Here are some quick numbers of parallel kernel compile time.

[PATCH] viostor driver. Xp driver performance.

2009-11-18 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
repository: /home/vadimr/shares/kvm-guest-drivers-windows branch: XP commit 3b2926a281a769499944a23cc3c9b905593e6838 Author: Vadim Rozenfeldvroze...@redhat.com Date: Thu Nov 19 09:14:38 2009 +0200 [PATCH] viostor driver. Xp driver performance. Signed-off-by: Vadim

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Split up pv-ops

2009-11-18 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/18/2009 02:13 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: Paravirt ops is currently only capable of either replacing a lot of Linux internal code or none at all. The are users that don't need all of the possibilities pv-ops delivers though. On KVM for example we're perfectly fine not using the PV MMU, thus

[PATCH] viostor driver. small fix in startio routine (storport related path).

2009-11-18 Thread Vadim Rozenfeld
repository: /home/vadimr/shares/kvm-guest-drivers-windows branch: XP commit 7f637876e7f8ef9a18d3baac31a4648034dcedaf Author: Vadim Rozenfeldvroze...@redhat.com Date: Thu Nov 19 09:50:32 2009 +0200 [PATCH] viostor driver. small fix in startio routine (storport related path).