network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-12 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work with this Solaris version. e1000 and pcnet work just by chance, as it seems. I can ping the guest (even though some packets are lost). I cannot use ssh to login.

Re: network problem with Solaris 10u8 guest

2010-05-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 05/12/10 12:41, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to run Solaris 10u8 as a guest in kvm (kernel 2.6.33.2). Problem: The virtual network devices don't work with this Solaris version. Short update: Virtualbox 3.1.6 seems to be more reliable in this case. Regards Harri

kvm problem: bonding network interface breaks dhcp

2009-11-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I am trying to use a bonding network interface as a bridge for a virtual machine (kvm). Host and guest are both running 2.6.31.5. Problem: The guest does not receive the DHCPOFFER reply sent by my dhcp server. There is no such problem if the host uses just a single network interface

Re: kvm problem: bonding network interface breaks dhcp

2009-11-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Matt, Matthew Palmer wrote: The output of brctl show, ip addr list, and cat /proc/net/bonding/bond* might be helpful. Sure. Using the bridge on the bonding interface (while the guest was running) I got: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces

Re: kvm problem: bonding network interface breaks dhcp

2009-11-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Avi Kivity wrote: Can you tcpdump on bond0, br0, vnet0, and the guest's interface to see where the packet is lost? Sure. Using the tcpdump command line: tcpdump -i br0 -w /var/tmp/tcpdump.br0 ether host 00:16:36:2f:f1:d2 (similar for other interfaces) I can see the DHCPOFFER coming from

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: guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: 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

Re: guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-11-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
Avi Kivity wrote: Please set up serial console for the guest and any post any detailed messages printed there (e.g. a stacktrace). This is what I got on the new host: [ 677.532010] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [ntpd:1665] [ 677.532010] Modules linked in: loop serio_raw

Re: guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-11-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Please set up serial console for the guest and any post any detailed messages printed there (e.g. a stacktrace). This is what I got on the new host: [ 677.532010] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [ntpd:1665] [ 677.532010] Modules linked

Re: guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-11-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
Avi Kivity wrote: Hm, pvmmu. Can you provide /proc/cpuinfo on the source (AMD) host? Sure: % cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 67 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1210 stepping: 2 cpu MHz

Re: guest gets stuck on the migration from AMD to Intel

2009-12-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 12/01/09 08:35, Harald Dunkel wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Hm, pvmmu. Can you provide /proc/cpuinfo on the source (AMD) host? Sure: % cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD : Any news about this problem? Regards Harri -- To unsubscribe from this list

default elevator=noop for virtio block devices?

2011-03-09 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, would it make sense to make elevator=noop the default for virtio block devices? Or would you recommend to set this on the kvm server instead? Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated Harri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a

how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?

2010-03-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Problem: My kvm server (8 cores, 64 GByte RAM, amd64) can eat up all block device or file system performance, so that the kvm clients become almost unresponsive. This is _very_ bad. I would like to make sure that the kvm clients do not

Re: how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?

2010-03-11 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Avi, I had missed to include some important syslog lines from the host system. See attachment. On 03/10/10 14:15, Avi Kivity wrote: You have tons of iowait time, indicating an I/O bottleneck. Is this disk IO or network IO? The rsync session puts a high load on both, but actually I do

Re: how to tweak kernel to get the best out of kvm?

2010-03-15 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 03/13/10 09:54, Avi Kivity wrote: If the slowdown is indeed due to I/O, LVM (with cache=off) should eliminate it completely. As promised I have installed LVM: The difference is remarkable. My test case (running 8 vhosts in parallel, each building a Linux kernel) just works. There is no

no screen output for '-vga vmware' at boot time

2011-01-06 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Booting Debian Squeeze on the guest I get a line Loading initrd... the rest of the boot procedure is omitted. The initrd message is not scrolled off the screen. The guest seems to boot, though. Kdm is shown as usual. If I switch back to /dev/tty1, then I finally see the last