KVM benchmarks (compared to vmware)

2008-11-17 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello list, I did some benchmarks over the weekend and compared kvm-78 on a 2.6.27.4-2-default against vmware server 2.0.0-122956 Host Machine: - Host E8400 (3GHz) 2GB RAM - virtual machines are on iSCSI or NFS - virtual machine is booted with -m 1024 and e1000 1. Bench =

interests in bugs for 2.6.16?

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello, I'm running kvm-79 on SLES 10, which has a 2.6.16. I see simple hangs (nothing happens anymore) in my kvm-virtual machine. I never have these hangs on 2.6.27. The hangs seem to be related to qcow2 images on local and on NFS disks. When I uses iscsi as disk the hangs do not occur. (At

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-79 release

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello, [...] Notes: If you use the modules bundled with kvm-79, you can use any version of Linux from 2.6.16 upwards. Nope. I tested kvm-79 on a SLES 10 with 2.6.16, in the hope that my previously reported bug: hrtimer_start: Unknown symbol in module was fixed. (It wasnt) Now I have this

hrtimer_start: Unknown symbol in module (kvm-78)

2008-11-11 Thread Martin Vogt
Hello list, I just downloaded kvm-78 and after I build it it writes: mediag0a:/usr/share/slg_qemu_kvm/kvm-78/kernel # modprobe kvm FATAL: Error inserting kvm (/lib/modules/2.6.16.54-0.2.5-smp/extra/kvm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Re: hrtimer_start: Unknown symbol in module (kvm-78)

2008-11-11 Thread Martin Vogt
Martin Vogt wrote: Hello list, I just downloaded kvm-78 and after I build it it writes: mediag0a:/usr/share/slg_qemu_kvm/kvm-78/kernel # modprobe kvm FATAL: Error inserting kvm (/lib/modules/2.6.16.54-0.2.5-smp/extra/kvm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg