Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

2009-08-14 Thread Amit Shah
On (Mon) Aug 10 2009 [11:59:31], Anthony Liguori wrote: However, as I've mentioned repeatedly, the reason I won't merge virtio-serial is that it duplicates functionality with virtio-console. If the two are converged, I'm happy to merge it. I'm not opposed to having more functionality.

[ kvm-Bugs-2834538 ] low network speed with Windows virtio NIC drivers

2009-08-14 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2834538, was opened at 2009-08-09 17:23 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by unki You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=2834538group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-08-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 13 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce the number of system calls involved in virtio networking. Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification. AFAICT, you have addressed all my comments,

[PATCH] Reordering how tap is initialized

2009-08-14 Thread Stephane Bakhos
This is my first patch, so I apoligize for breaking any convention. This patch modifies the order used in net.c for tap initialization. It runs the script before the device is opened. This permits the creation of the tap device via a script instead of having to do it in advance. It also waits

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

2009-08-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Amit Shah wrote: On (Mon) Aug 10 2009 [11:59:31], Anthony Liguori wrote: However, as I've mentioned repeatedly, the reason I won't merge virtio-serial is that it duplicates functionality with virtio-console. If the two are converged, I'm happy to merge it. I'm not opposed to having

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

2009-08-14 Thread Amit Shah
On (Fri) Aug 14 2009 [08:29:28], Anthony Liguori wrote: Amit Shah wrote: On (Mon) Aug 10 2009 [11:59:31], Anthony Liguori wrote: However, as I've mentioned repeatedly, the reason I won't merge virtio-serial is that it duplicates functionality with virtio-console. If the two are

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

2009-08-14 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 08/14/09 10:15, Amit Shah wrote: The guest code sort-of ends up looking like this after merging virtio_console into virtio_serial. I think it should better go the other way around: add multichannel support to virtio-concole, probably guarded by a feature flag so old host+new guest and new

Re: [PATCH] Reordering how tap is initialized

2009-08-14 Thread Stephane Bakhos
Stephane Bakhos wrote: This is my first patch, so I apoligize for breaking any convention. This patch modifies the order used in net.c for tap initialization. It runs the script before the device is opened. This will break existing scripts that do not rely on explicitly setting ifname=

Re: Trouble shutting down vm on guest halt

2009-08-14 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:38:52 +0200, Flemming Frandsen flemming.frand...@stibo.com wrote: I'm having some problems getting kvm to exit when the guest OS has halted. Specifically I'm running CentOS 5.2 as the guest on ubuntu 8.1.' I've noticed that 32 bit windows xp and 64 bit ubuntu 9.10 can

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

2009-08-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 08/14/09 10:15, Amit Shah wrote: The guest code sort-of ends up looking like this after merging virtio_console into virtio_serial. I think it should better go the other way around: add multichannel support to virtio-concole, probably guarded by a feature flag so old

Re: [PATCH] Reordering how tap is initialized

2009-08-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Stephane Bakhos wrote: Stephane Bakhos wrote: This is my first patch, so I apoligize for breaking any convention. This patch modifies the order used in net.c for tap initialization. It runs the script before the device is opened. This will break existing scripts that do not rely on

qemu/kvm exchangeable with same windowsXP diskimage ?

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Schwager
Hi, i installed a MS windows xp running on kvm-86. Now, I tried to run this image directly on qemu-0.10.5 - but windows told me about problems while booting and reset the vm. Do I have to install some drivers first on the v...@kvm so, the vm will also run in v...@qemu-0.10.5 ? regards Danny

Re: qemu/kvm exchangeable with same windowsXP diskimage ?

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 14 August 2009 01:54:26 pm Daniel Schwager wrote: Hi, i installed a MS windows xp running on kvm-86. Now, I tried to run this image directly on qemu-0.10.5 - but windows told me about problems while booting and reset the vm. Do I have to install some drivers first on the v...@kvm

Re: AlacrityVM numbers updated for 31-rc4

2009-08-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
Gregory Haskins wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Gregory Haskins wrote: I re-ran the numbers on 10GE against the actual alacrityvm v0.1 release available in git on kernel.org. I tried to include the newly announced vhost driver (Michael Tsirkin) for virtio acceleration, but ran into issues

VNC server for KVM VM

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I'm using the following syntax to launch a VM: $KVM -hda ${DISK_PATH}/aprender00-raiz -hdb ${DISK_PATH}/aprender00-space \ -m 3584 -boot c -smp 4 -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:00:61,model=virtio \ -net tap -daemonize -vnc :3 -k es -localtime -monitor \

Re: VNC server for KVM VM

2009-08-14 Thread Charles Duffy
Daniel Bareiro wrote: inet_listen: bind(ipv4,0.0.0.0,5903): Address already in use inet_listen: FAILED If you check with netstat, I expect you'll see the port in TIME_WAIT state; if so, this will eventually clean itself up if you just wait a little bit before restarting. One option to

Re: VNC server for KVM VM

2009-08-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm using the following syntax to launch a VM: $KVM -hda ${DISK_PATH}/aprender00-raiz -hdb ${DISK_PATH}/aprender00-space \ -m 3584 -boot c -smp 4 -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:00:61,model=virtio \ -net tap -daemonize -vnc :3 -k es -localtime -monitor \

Re: VNC server for KVM VM

2009-08-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Charles Duffy wrote: Daniel Bareiro wrote: inet_listen: bind(ipv4,0.0.0.0,5903): Address already in use inet_listen: FAILED If you check with netstat, I expect you'll see the port in TIME_WAIT state; if so, this will eventually clean itself up if you just wait a little bit before

Re: VNC server for KVM VM

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Friday, 14 August 2009 16:28:00 -0500, Charles Duffy wrote: inet_listen: bind(ipv4,0.0.0.0,5903): Address already in use inet_listen: FAILED If you check with netstat, I expect you'll see the port in TIME_WAIT state; if so, this will eventually clean itself up if you just wait a little