Re: Nic Bonding - throughput for guest

2014-10-24 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday, October 24, 2014 02:37:28 PM Stefan Bauer wrote: Hi, please CC me - I'm not subscribed to this list. I'm looking forward to bond the 2 Nics from my KVM Host (2 x 1GbE) to increase throughput for my guest. Currently my guest has a e1000 nic attached. That probably

Re: New improvements on KVM

2014-06-24 Thread Brian Jackson
On 6/23/2014 10:09 PM, Oscar Garcia wrote: Hello, I am planning to study a phd for the next year, and I would like to spend part on my time studying KVM code in order to suggest new improvements. I know that this mail list is used by experts related to KVM, I would like to ask you, what

Re: FreeBSD filesystem sharing

2014-04-09 Thread Brian Jackson
of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Qemu v1.7.1 CentOS 6.4

2014-03-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On 03/28/2014 03:55 PM, Lane Eckley wrote: Hi Everyone, I am running into performance issues with Windows guest VM's in conjunction with the rather old version of Qemu-KVM that is currently being shipped with rhel 6.4 and as such I am looking to upgrade to the latest stable release of qemu

Re: lightscribe support

2014-02-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On 02/14/2014 03:29 PM, Nerijus Baliunas wrote: Hello, is it possible to support lightscribe in KVM? Now Windows VM sees QEMU DVD-ROM ATA Device and labeling software shows No LightScribe Drives Found. You could try to use virtio-scsi and scsi passthru. I believe there's been a post on this

Re: [Qemu-devel] Speed disk virtio

2014-02-07 Thread Brian Jackson
On 02/04/2014 08:21 AM, XliN wrote: Good day. Very little speed drives Virtio. Drivers are the latest guest on the system Windows server 2008. Host system centos 6.5. What latest? There are a few different places to get drivers (Fedora site, RHEL subscription, build yourself, etc). From the

Re: How to share filesystem

2013-09-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:38:39 AM CDT, Ross Boylan wrote: I would like to have access to the same file system from the host and the guest. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, considering ease of use, safety (concurrent access from guest and host does not corrupt) and

Re: kernel panic

2013-09-17 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, September 16, 2013 9:57:26 PM CDT, zhang xintao wrote: 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 12 12:59:17 CST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux You should probably report this to your distribution. = PID: 2621 TASK:

Re: KVM in HA active/active + fault-tolerant configuration

2013-08-21 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:02:31 AM CDT, g.da...@assyoma.it wrote: Hi all, I have a question about Linux KVM HA cluster. I understand that in a HA setup I can live migrate virtual machine between host that shares the same storage (via various methods, eg: DRDB). This enable us to migrate

Re: KVM in HA active/active + fault-tolerant configuration

2013-08-21 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:49:09 PM CDT, g.da...@assyoma.it wrote: On 2013-08-21 21:40, Brian Jackson wrote: On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:02:31 AM CDT, g.da...@assyoma.it wrote: ... Hi Brian, thank you for your reply. As I googled extensively without finding anything, I was prepared

Re: Network performance data

2013-06-27 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:09:37 AM CDT, Bill Rich wrote: Hello All, I've run into a problem with getting network performance data on Windows VMs running on KVM. When I check the network data in the Windows task manager on the VM, it remains at zero, even if large amounts of data are being

Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images?

2013-06-27 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote: Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the Linux mailing lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user questions are OK. I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on KVM/Linux.

Re: Status of Fault Tolerance feature?

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:16:13 +0200 Andres Toomsalu and...@opennodecloud.com wrote: But is there any other projects in (planned) development with the same goal(s)? I haven't heard of any. But then again, a lot of things get developed in secret and then dumped on the community. Im just

Re: KVM VM's facing public network

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:53:21 -0500 Hugo R Hernández-Mora hdezm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, we are experiencing a problem by configuring a KVM bridged networking to share a public network interface between the KVM host and the VMs. Currently, our KVM server has set three network

Re: KVM VM's facing public network

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:15:54 -0500 Hugo R. Hernandez-Mora hdezm...@gmail.com wrote: Brian, thanks for having the time and look into my problem. I have set my VMs by using virt-manager but here is how it looks the qemu/kvm process running for my client: [root@kvm1 ~]# ps -efl | grep qemu

Re: Status of Fault Tolerance feature?

2013-01-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:12 +0200 Andres Toomsalu and...@opennodecloud.com wrote: Hi, Could anyone shed a light what happened to Kemari project and are there any upcoming development planned in order to provide continous non-blocking VM checkpointing and VM HA with state replication?

Re: I/O errors in guest OS after repeated migration

2012-10-17 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 06:54:00 AM Guido Winkelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012, 12:44:27 schrieb Brian Jackson: On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:33:44 AM Guido Winkelmann wrote: [...] The commandline, as generated by libvirtd, looks like this: LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr

Re: I/O errors in guest OS after repeated migration

2012-10-17 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:45:14 AM Guido Winkelmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012, 12:44:27 schrieb Brian Jackson: On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:33:44 AM Guido Winkelmann wrote: The commandline, as generated by libvirtd, looks like this: LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin

Re: I/O errors in guest OS after repeated migration

2012-10-16 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:33:44 AM Guido Winkelmann wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing I/O errors in a guest machine after migrating it from one host to another, and then back to the original host. After doing this, I find the following in the dmesg output of the guest machine: [

Re: Error: Not supported image type twoGbMaxExtentFlat. - problems using virt-convert

2012-09-04 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:26:49 AM Lentes, Bernd wrote: Hi, i want to convert a sles 11 sp2 64bit system (running on VMWare Server 1.09) to libvirt format. Host OS is SLES 11 SP2 64bit. I tried virt-convert --os-variant=sles11 sles_11_vmx/ sles_11_kvm/ . This is what i got:

Re: Question about host CPU usage/allocation by KVM

2012-04-20 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:01:54 -0500, Alexander Lyakas alex.bols...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stuart, I have been doing some experiments, and I noticed that there are additional QEMU threads, besides the ones reported by info cpus command. In particular, the main QEMU thread (the one whose LWP is the

Re: AESNI and guest hosts

2012-02-14 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 03:31:10 AM Ryan Brown wrote: Sorry for being a noob here, Any clues with this?, anyone ... On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Ryan Brown mp3g...@gmail.com wrote: Host/KVM server is running linux 3.2.4 (Debian wheezy), and guest kernel is running 3.2.5. The cpu

Re: performance trouble

2012-01-30 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, January 30, 2012 09:36:55 AM David Cure wrote: Le Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:28:37AM +0100, David Cure ecrivait : I use several kvm box, and no problem at all except for 1 application that have bad response time. The VM runs Windows 2008R2 and the application is an

Re: Can I configure cores instead of CPU's

2011-12-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On 12/2/2011 4:27 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Scientific Linux 6.1 x64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2.x86_64 My XP-Pro guest will only let me use two CPUs. Is there a way I can tell Virt-Manager to use one CPU with four cores instead of four separate CPUs? Don't know about

Re: Is it possible to have SDL without X?

2011-11-30 Thread Brian Jackson
On 11/29/2011 9:29 PM, Matt Graham wrote: Hello, Can a guest with SDL graphics run on a host without X? I get an error: init kbd. Could not initialize SDL - exiting The above happens on a host with X after running /etc/init.d/xdm stop and chmod -R 777 /dev. If I don't do the chmod, SDL

Re: user: time jump in slave machine leads to freeze

2011-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On 1/25/2011 9:21 AM, gnafou wrote: Hello We have had several cases where a slave machine freezes, eating all available cpu. ( this happends randomly, say, after 3 months of correct functionning ) After reboot, looking at the syslog when the freeze occured, the few ( ~5 ) last lines written

Re: network performance between host and guest...

2010-12-17 Thread Brian Jackson
On 12/17/2010 4:29 PM, Erik Brakkee wrote: Hi, For a backup of data from a VM to a USB mounted disk I want to circumvent the USB 1.1 limitations on the guest and instead copy the data over to the host using scp/ssh. I have setup a network using virtio and NAT like this: interface

Re: kvm hangs on mkfs

2010-12-08 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 01:09:25 pm Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, I tried a relatively simple task with qemu-kvm. I have two qcow hd images and try to create filesystems on them using a gentoo installation disk. qcow2 (I hope you are using that vs just qcow) is known to be a tad on the

Re: [libvirt-users] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, October 11, 2010 11:57:27 am Dan Johansson wrote: Yes, the image contains an OS (it works if I start the guest manually). On Monday 11 October 2010 03.41:29 jbuy0710 wrote: The image contains an OS or not? If not, you can't choose to boot from disk like boot dev='hd'/

Re: 8 NIC limit

2010-10-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On 10/5/2010 9:48 AM, linux_...@proinbox.com wrote: Hello list: I'm working on a project that calls for the creation of a firewall in KVM. While adding a 20-interface trunk of virtio adapters to bring in a dual 10GB bond, I've discovered an 8 NIC limit in QEMU. I found the following thread in

Re: vhost not working with version 12.5 with kernel 2.6.35.4

2010-09-09 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 21:14:39 matthew.r.roh...@l-3com.com wrote: When trying to use vhost I get the error vhost-net requested but could not be initialized. The only thing I have been able to find about this problem relates to SElinux being turned off which mine is

Re: GPU passthrough again ...

2010-09-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On 9/5/2010 3:22 PM, Christian Voß wrote: Hi, a short question: Is GPU passthrough into KVM guests now available? No. I'm sure it'll be announced fairly loudly when/if it does work. Thanks a lot. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to

Re: vhost not working with version 12.5 with kernel 2.6.35.4

2010-09-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, September 02, 2010 06:27:26 pm matthew.r.roh...@l-3com.com wrote: When trying to use vhost I get the error vhost-net requested but could not be initialized. The only thing I have been able to find about this problem relates to SElinux being turned off which mine is disabled and

Re: Degrading Network performance as KVM/kernel version increases

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Jackson
On 8/31/2010 6:00 PM, matthew.r.roh...@l-3com.com wrote: I have been getting degrading network performance with newer versions of KVM and was wondering if this was expected? It seems like a bug, but I am new to this and maybe I am doing something wrong so I thought I would ask. KVM Host OS:

Re: Is it possible to live migrate guest OS'es between different versions of kvm/qemu-kvm?

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, August 30, 2010 07:04:51 am Nils Cant wrote: Hey guys, next try is without libvirt, but still no joy. After issuing 'migrate -d url' on my sending host (qemu-kvm 0.11.0), I get the following output on the receiving host (qemu-kvm 0.12.4): A quick search of this and/or the qemu

Re: KVM Bridged Networking Issue in Ubuntu Lucid

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 09:08:30 am Rus Hughes wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to sort out networking for a VM I've created on my Ubuntu Lucid box but the VM cannot access the Internet. I can connect to the VM (crisps) from the host (holly) and to the host from the VM. But the VM cannot

Re: virtio driver

2010-08-13 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday, August 13, 2010 02:08:07 am Nirmal Guhan wrote: Hi, My guest (2.6.32 kernel with some patches unrelated to kvm) does not seem to work with virtio driver (model=virtio in qemu-kvm). My rootfs is over nfs. If I change model=pcnet, guest comes up fine. With virtio, I get error as No

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM Call agenda for July 13th

2010-07-13 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:01:22 pm Avi Kivity wrote: On 07/13/2010 07:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: I'd like to see more frequent stable releases, at least if the stable branch contains fixes to user-reported bugs (or of course security or data integrity fixes). Would you like to

Re: qemu-kvm 0.12.4 hanging forever

2010-07-01 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, July 01, 2010 05:37:29 pm Zach Carter wrote: Hi: Under certain 100% reproducible circumstances, when I try to run qemu-kvm, it completely hangs without appearing to do anything I have tried this with qemu-kvm 0.12.4 and with the latest code from the git repository. Here

Re: random crash in post_kvm_run()

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, June 28, 2010 12:28:52 pm BuraphaLinux Server wrote: Hello, I have tried qemu_kvm 0.12.4 release and also git from about 1/2 an hour ago. In both cases, I crash in the post_kvm_run() function on the line about: pthread_mutex_lock(qemu_mutex); The command I use to run

Re: Loss of network connectivity with high load

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 16:00:38 Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm using Linux 2.6.31.13 compiled with the kernel.org source code on KVM host with Debian GNU/Linux Lenny amd64. Also I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Lenny amd64 virtual machine with kernel 2.6.26-2 from Debian repositories. I'm

Re: Opteron AMD-V support

2010-06-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:33:24 Govender, Sashan wrote: Hi We bumped into this issue with VMWare ESX 4 where it doesn't support hardware virtualization if the processor is an AMD Athlon/Opteron (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9150). Does linux-kvm have a similar issue? More

Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while recompile world

2010-05-21 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday, May 21, 2010 10:46:10 am Riccardo wrote: -- Original Message --- From: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com To: Riccardo andrighetto.ricca...@gmail.com Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Sent: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:21:20 +0300 Subject: Re: Gentoo guest with smp: emerge freeze while

Re: computer frozen

2010-05-20 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, May 20, 2010 02:03:31 am magicboiz wrote: Hello since kernel 2.6.28 or 2.6.29, I don't remember exactly, whenever I try to run KVM in my laptop, I get my computer totally frozen. I'd try: - -no-kvm flag: works, but very slow - -cpu qemu32,-nx: frozen - -no-acpi flag:

Re: KVM call agenda for May 18

2010-05-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 17 May 2010 22:23:46 Chris Wright wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call. Perceived long standing bugs that nobody seems to care about. There are a few, one of which is the 1TB [1] bug

Re: KVM call agenda for May 18

2010-05-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 08:52:36 Anthony Liguori wrote: On 05/18/2010 01:59 AM, Brian Jackson wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 22:23:46 Chris Wright wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. If we have a lack of agenda items I'll cancel the week's call

Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio_blk: Use blk-iopoll for host-guest notify

2010-05-14 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday, May 14, 2010 03:47:37 pm Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: This patch adds blk-iopoll interrupt mitigation to virtio-blk. Instead of processing completed requests inside the virtqueue interrupt handler, a softirq is scheduled to process up to a maximum number of completed requests in one go.

Re: virtio-win problem

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, May 06, 2010 07:10:07 am Riccardo Veraldi wrote: Hello, if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers. I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start the machine pressing F8 every time

Re: virtio-win problem

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, May 06, 2010 03:11:00 pm Jernej Simončič wrote: On Thursday, May 6, 2010, 21:59:21, Brian Jackson wrote: http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20100228.zip These are not guaranteed to work and they will probably kill kittens. That said, I've had luck with them and had only a few

Re: virtio-win problem

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thursday, May 06, 2010 04:05:17 pm Jernej Simončič wrote: On Thursday, May 6, 2010, 22:36:02, Brian Jackson wrote: What about the XP32 drivers from: http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20091208.zip This is what I currently use on XP, and it works fine (I think I mentioned this on IRC - my

Re: Can I simulate a virtual Dual-Head Graphiccard?

2010-04-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday, April 28, 2010 03:08:24 pm Axel Kittenberger wrote: Hello, This is a question I was not able to answer with a search. I've been using kvm now quite successfully as server side solution. Now I want to use it on a particular desktop to have a Windows 7 Guest on a native Linux

Re: Jumbo frames with virtio net

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday, April 26, 2010 09:23:49 am carlopmart wrote: Hi all Is it possible to configure jumbo frames (mtu=9000) on a kvm guest using virtio net drivers? Yes. The same rules apply as to physical computers. Every step of the path has to have the same mtu (i.e. the bridge, tap, host

Re: RHEL5.5, 32-bit VM repeatedly locks up due to kvmclock

2010-04-23 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 23 April 2010 12:08:22 David S. Ahern wrote: After a few days of debugging I think kvmclock is the source of lockups for a RHEL5.5-based VM. The VM works fine on one host, but repeatedly locks up on another. Server 1 - VM locks up repeatedly -- DL580 G5 -- 4 quad-core X7350

Re: [PATCH] block: Free iovec arrays allocated by multiwrite_merge()

2010-04-21 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 13:35:36 Ryan Harper wrote: * Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com [2010-04-21 13:27]: A new iovec array is allocated when creating a merged write request. This patch ensures that the iovec array is deleted in addition to its qiov owner. Nice catch.

Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Apr 20

2010-04-19 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 19 April 2010 18:30:44 Chris Wright wrote: Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering. 0.12.4? thanks, -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: KVM warning about uncertified CPU for SMP for AMD model 2, stepping3

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 06:03:02 pm Jiri Kosina wrote: Hi, booting 32bit guest on 32bit host on AMD system gives me the following warning when KVM is instructed to boot as SMP: This has been discussed before (fairly recently). Subject was tainted Linux kernel in default SMP QEMU/KVM

Re: usb_linux_update_endp_table: No such file or directory

2010-03-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Sunday 28 March 2010 16:23:24 scar wrote: Brian Jackson @ 10/18/2008 10:23 AM: On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Xavier Gnata xavier.gn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to plug an Ipod on a winXP guest. The host is a 2.6.27 and I'm using kvm-77. I get this (as root to avoid stupid

Re: PCI passthrough resource remapping

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Jackson
It's only in qemu-kvm.git. Maybe it should go into qemu-kvm-0.12.4 if there is one Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: 2010/1/9 Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de: On 09.01.2010, at 03:45, Ryan C. Underwood wrote: I have a multifunction PCI device

Re: linux-aio usable?

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 08 March 2010 03:27:36 pm Nikola Ciprich wrote: It's faster. Hi Avi, Could You give some rough estimate on how much faster? I'm stuck with glibc-2.5 now, but I'm always eager to improve performance, so I wonder if it would make sense to either port eventfd + aio stuff, or switch

Re: Windows guest freezes with black screen

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:33:19 am Harald Braumann wrote: Hi, quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black and it uses 100% CPU. I don't think it's a guest problem, because I have kernel debugging enabled and a debugger running in another VM is connected through a serial

Re: About creating VM

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Jackson
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2010, at 7:19 PM, sati...@pacific.net.hk wrote: Hi folks, Host - Ubuntu 9.10 64bit Virtualizer - KVM I followed; Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.10 http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualiza...on-ubuntu-9.10 to install this Virtual Machine. The steps worked

Re: windows server 2008 hyper-v on kvm

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:59:54 Evan Ingram wrote: On 15/02/2010 18:39, Gleb Natapov wrote: I guess original poster needs to clarify what he actually means :) maybe i'm getting the words wrong. ive got an ubuntu 9.10 server with kvm installed on it. ive then installed windows server

Re: KVM RAM limitation

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:55:41 am Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to boot a VM with 2048 MB in a VMHost with Linux 2.6.32.6 and qemu-kvm-0.12.2, but when doing it, I obtain it the following message: qemu: at most 2047 MB RAM can be simulated. Are you sure you enabled KVM?

Re: KVM RAM limitation

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 02:06:53 pm Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, Anthony. On Wednesday, 03 February 2010 13:20:12 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: Are you sure you enabled KVM? Are you sure you are using the KVM binary and not some QEMU binary that's sitting around. This is one of

Re: KVM problems with Xeon L5530

2010-01-27 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 05:37:14 pm Matteo Ghezzi wrote: Hi! I'm a long time KVM user, but I've encountered a problem that I couldn't solve. I've switched my good old Core2 Quad with gentoo (2.6.27 kernel) for a Dual Xeon L5530 with Arch (2.6.32 kernel). I've tried starting the old

Re: Can KVM PassThrough specifically my PCI cards to fully-virt'd KVM Guests with my CPU? Yet?

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 25 January 2010 21:11:12 Ben DJ wrote: Hi, I have a box with an AMD Phenom II X4 920 CPU Reading http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#What_do_I_need_to_use_KVM.3F, I've verified with 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' that the CPU has the AMD-V svm extension. I'm specifically interested in

Re: Can KVM PassThrough specifically my PCI cards to fully-virt'd KVM Guests with my CPU? Yet?

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 00:22:25 Ben DJ wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com wrote: You do need iommu support in your system. Unfortunately there are very few AMD motherboards that have an iommu. Only 1 server level board I know of has one and is close

Re: PCIe device pass-through - No IOMMU, Failed to deassign device error

2010-01-23 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday 23 January 2010 05:20:49 Yigal Korman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to pass a second video card to a Windows 7 virtual machine with KVM, and I get the following error: KVM doesn't support assigning graphics cards to VMs yet. There are people working on it afaik, but I don't know the

Re: virtio bonding bandwidth problem

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 22 January 2010 07:52:49 am Didier Moens wrote: (initially posted to libvirt-us...@redhat.com, but by request of Daniel P. Berrange cross-posted to this list) Dear all, I have been wrestling with this issue for the past few days ; googling around doesn't seem to yield

Issues with qemu-kvm.git from today

2009-12-15 Thread Brian Jackson
With qemu-kvm.git from this morning (about an hour ago), I see the following message. Qemu continues to run after this, but the guest is unresponsive and the qemu process is chewing up 100% cpu. rom: out of memory (rom pxe-virtio.bin, addr 0x000de800, size 0xdc00, max

Re: Memory under KVM?

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 11 December 2009 15:43:01 rek2 wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to the list and I have a couple questions that we are wondering about here at work... we have notice that the KVM processes on the host take much more memory than the memory we have told the VM to use.. a ruff example.. if

Windows XP Viostor driver not building

2009-12-09 Thread Brian Jackson
When I try to build it recently I get the following: Compiling - virtio_stor_hw_helper.c 1errors in directory c:\src\kvm-guest-drivers-windows\viostor 1c:\src\kvm-guest-drivers-windows\viostor\virtio_stor_hw_helper.c(99) : error C2039: 'requests' : is not a member of '_ADAPTER_EXTENSION'

Re: libvirt bug #532480

2009-11-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 06:02:42 am roma1390 wrote: Lib virt thinks that bug #532480 must be addressed to quemu/kvm team. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532480 For future reference adding some overview to your email instead of making all the devs with arguably limited

Re: CPU change causes hanging of .NET apps

2009-10-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 16:13:37 Erik Rull wrote: Hi all, when changing the CPU from the default QEMU32 one to e.g. the n270 or the core2duo no .NET apps will work under Windows XP as guest. Switching back and everything is fine. The Pentium Emulation on the other side works fine!

Re: Is AMD rev F the same thing as socket F?

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 19 October 2009 09:21:48 am Neil Aggarwal wrote: Chris: cpu family : 15 ^^ means that you have a Rev F (cpu_family 15 == 0xf in hex). That is good to know. Thanks for the info. I am actually quite surprised this processor does not have the constant time stamp counter

Re: Modifying RAM during runtime on guest

2009-09-08 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 03:52:07 pm Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to modify the amount of RAM that has some of guests. Host has 2.6.30 kernel with KVM-88. In one of guest I didn't have problems when decreasing the amount of memory from 3584 MIB to 1024 MiB. This guest has

Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 04 September 2009 09:48:17 am Andrew Theurer wrote: snip Still not idle=poll, it may shave off 0.2%. Won't this affect SMT in a negative way? (OK, I am not running SMT now, but eventually we will be) A long time ago, we tested P4's with HT, and a polling idle in one thread

Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 04 September 2009 11:08:51 am Andrew Theurer wrote: Brian Jackson wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 09:48:17 am Andrew Theurer wrote: snip Still not idle=poll, it may shave off 0.2%. Won't this affect SMT in a negative way? (OK, I am not running SMT now, but eventually

Re: vhost_net_init returned -7

2009-08-29 Thread Brian Jackson
, 2009 at 03:10:43PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote: I'm trying to tinker with vhost_net. I have a 2.6.31-rc4 host kernel patched to support vhost_net (v5) (along with ksm if it matters). The guest is a debian-5.0.2 (2.6.26) install CD for now. When the guest tries to load the virtio-net drivers, kvm

Re: Poor network performance with cable modem assigned to guest

2009-08-28 Thread Brian Jackson
On Friday 28 August 2009 01:14:42 pm Jon Fairbairn wrote: I'm experimenting with a virtual router. I did this a few years ago with Xen and it worked well enough, but then fedora changed and it stopped working, so I gave up for a while. Now I have a machine that supports hardware

vhost_net_init returned -7

2009-08-28 Thread Brian Jackson
I'm trying to tinker with vhost_net. I have a 2.6.31-rc4 host kernel patched to support vhost_net (v5) (along with ksm if it matters). The guest is a debian-5.0.2 (2.6.26) install CD for now. When the guest tries to load the virtio-net drivers, kvm closes and prints vhost_net_init returned -7.

Re: Performace data when running Windows VMs

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:14:57 am Andrew Theurer wrote: snip I/O on the host was not what I would call very high: outbound network averaged at 163 Mbit/s inbound was 8 Mbit/s, while disk read ops was 243/sec and write ops was 561/sec What was the disk bandwidth used?

Re: Windows guest CPU socket/core recognition

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 17 August 2009 22:28:35 Zdenek Kaspar wrote: Hello everyone, I guess I'm not the first one who hit the problem with Microsoft's licensing model.. Nowadays the common single or dual quad-core workstation can't be fully used because it's limited by example: license up to 2

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: kvm userspace: ksm support

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 03 August 2009 02:04:15 pm Izik Eidus wrote: Brian Jackson wrote: Look okay? Yes. Okay I got it working after I figured out there were 2 kvm_setup_guest_memory()'s in qemu-kvm I have debian-5 packages of linux-2.6.31-rc4 with ksm patches and qemu- kvm-0.10.6 with ksm patches

Re: kvm userspace: ksm support

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Jackson
If someone wanted to play around with ksm in qemu-kvm-0.x.x would it be as simple as adding the below additions to kvm_setup_guest_memory in kvm-all.c (and adding the necessary kernel changes of course)? On Tuesday 28 July 2009 11:39:59 am Izik Eidus wrote: This patch is not for inclusion

Re: kvm userspace: ksm support

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 03 August 2009 01:09:38 pm Izik Eidus wrote: Brian Jackson wrote: If someone wanted to play around with ksm in qemu-kvm-0.x.x would it be as simple as adding the below additions to kvm_setup_guest_memory in kvm-all.c qemu-kvm-0.x.x doesnt tell me much, but if it is the function

Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows?

2009-07-22 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 01:23:56 pm Yaniv Kaul wrote: On 7/22/2009 8:26 PM, Wilken Haase wrote: Hi List, we are already using kvm successfully a while here for our internal Infrastructure. Up to now we're having good results with Linux Guests and are quite happy with kvm. Now it's

Re: USB passthrough does not work

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Jackson
I don't know if this might be effecting you, but KVM does not support USB-2. More and more devices these days are USB-2 only. It's at least worth checking out. In any case... copying files over USB-1.1 is going to be terribly painful. --Iggy On Tuesday 21 July 2009 19:44:33 Andreas Kinzler

Re: Problem with Grub and KVM 88

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 06:06:54 am Erik Wartusch wrote: Hi all, Following problem. I recently upgraded kvm from 7.2 (Debian Lenny repository version) to the newest 88 KVM. How did you install kvm-88? Did you do a proper install? including the bios files, extboot, etc? --Iggy Since

[WIKI] email confirmation not working

2009-07-08 Thread Brian Jackson
I tried doing the email confirmation on the wiki so I could be emailed on page changes, etc. Every time I hit the Mail a confirmation code button it says: Could not send confirmation mail. Check address for invalid characters. I've re-entered my email address and tried again. Same results.

Re: [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Jackson
Andre Przywara wrote: Hi, currently SMP guests happen to see n vCPUs as n different sockets. Some guests (Windows comes to mind) have license restrictions and refuse to run on multi-socket machines. So lets introduce a cores= parameter to the -cpu option to let the user specify the number of

extboot and qemu-kvm-0.10.x

2009-06-12 Thread Brian Jackson
Is it expected that qemu-kvm-0.10.x doesn't build/install extboot.bin? This came up on the IRC channel last night. I would expect it to, but the person in the IRC channel didn't get extboot.bin from the tarball and none of the tags of 0.10.x I tried built it either. --Iggy -- To

Re: XP smp using a lot of CPU [SOLVED]

2009-05-15 Thread Brian Jackson
On May 15, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: Using ACPI fixes the problem; CPU useage is now quite low. Start line was sudo vdeq kvm -net nic,vlan=1,macaddr=52:54:a0:12:01:00 \ -net vde,vlan=1,sock=/var/run/vde2/tap0.ctl \ -boot d -cdrom /usr/local/backup/XPProSP3.iso \ -std-vga

Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working

2009-04-24 Thread Brian Jackson
you how to do it within the confines of libvirt. --Brian Jackson Is there some way in a running qemu to find out if a virtio blockdevice is activated this way? When running info block I always get this result if the device has boot=on or not: virtio0: type=hd removable=0 file=/dev

Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Jackson
Your problem is that index's are per interface type, so both of your drives should be index=0 since they are different interface types. On Thursday 23 April 2009 03:43:03 Gerd v. Egidy wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my kvm (from 79) to the new 85. I'm using qemu-kvm- devel with the

Re: kvm with OpenBSD 4.5

2009-04-16 Thread Brian Jackson
it's a module option to the kvm option. parm: oos_shadow:bool On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:43:56 Dongsheng Song wrote: kvm-84 has same error. How to disable oos optimization, is there a switch? 2009/4/16 Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com: You might want to try 84 with oos

Re: kvm with OpenBSD 4.5

2009-04-15 Thread Brian Jackson
You might want to try 84 with oos optimization off (or better yet 85 when it comes out). There was a bug recently (post 84) fixed that affected some BSDs. On Wednesday 15 April 2009 22:51:13 Dongsheng Song wrote: Can any one run OpenBSD 4.5[1,2] under kvm ? I run OpenBSD 4.4 under Debian

Re: 3525MB RAM Limit

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Jackson
of the IRC channel. If you are still unable to get it to work, you should reply back with more info. Kernel version, KVM version, etc. Good luck. --Brian Jackson On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:07:36 Daniel Scott wrote: Hi, Thanks for the response. I have read through the archives (I also did so

Re: 3525MB RAM Limit

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Jackson
? Thanks, Dan 2009/4/6 Brian Jackson i...@theiggy.com: Read the list archives. A fix was discussed recently. --Brian Jackson On Monday 06 April 2009 21:59:24 Daniel Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running a KVM host using Fedora 10 (x86_64) on 4x Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8347 HE system

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