I/O performance of VirtIO

2009-10-12 Thread René Pfeiffer
Hello! I just tested qemu-kvm-0.11.0 with the KVM module of kernel 2.6.31.1. I noticed that the I/O performance of an unattended stock Debian Lenny install dropped somehow. The test machines ran with kvm-88 and 2.6.30.x before. The difference is very noticeable (went from about 5 minutes up to

Re: I/O performance of VirtIO

2009-10-12 Thread René Pfeiffer
On Oct 13, 2009 at 0145 +0400, Michael Tokarev appeared and said: René Pfeiffer wrote: Hello! I just tested qemu-kvm-0.11.0 with the KVM module of kernel 2.6.31.1. I noticed that the I/O performance of an unattended stock Debian Lenny install dropped somehow. The test machines ran with kvm

Re: kvm or qemu-kvm?

2009-10-10 Thread René Pfeiffer
On Oct 01, 2009 at 1902 +0200, Avi Kivity appeared and said: On 10/01/2009 06:51 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: My distro (Debian) is only at 85, even in unstable. Since it wasn't current, and also the dependencies will have wide effects on my system (which I'm trying to keep at the stable release

Re: kvm-86 fails to compile with 'IOMMU_CACHE' undeclared

2009-05-22 Thread René Pfeiffer
On May 20, 2009 at 2230 +0200, Nikola Ciprich appeared and said: Hi Rene, as a workaround, You can disable AMD IOMMU support (AMD_IOMMU) and Support for DMA Remapping Devices (EXPERIMENTAL) (DMAR) in Your host kernel. Ok, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure what the

kvm-86 fails to compile with 'IOMMU_CACHE' undeclared

2009-05-20 Thread René Pfeiffer
Hello! I just tried to compile kvm-86 on two test machines and I get the following error: [...] CC [M] /usr/src/build/kvm-86/kvm/kernel/x86/iommu.o /usr/src/build/kvm-86/kvm/kernel/x86/iommu.c: In function ‘kvm_iommu_map_pages’: /usr/src/build/kvm-86/kvm/kernel/x86/iommu.c:90: error:

Re: DMA errors in guest caused by corrupted(?) disk image

2009-05-09 Thread René Pfeiffer
On Mar 31, 2009 at 1355 +1100, Matthew Palmer appeared and said: Hi, I've just come across a somewhat strange problem that was suggested I report to the list. The problem manifested itself as DMA errors and the like popping up in the guest, like I'd expect to see if a disk in a physical