[kvm-devel] kvm-commits mailing list

2006-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
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[kvm-devel] lost ticks in linux

2006-12-20 Thread Emil Tantilov
Hi all, Just recently started playing with kvm and used my linux image which was previously running with vmplayer. From what I can tell so far kvm runs noticeably faster compared to vmplayer on the same image. The only issue I've seen so far is with the timer - I get lost ticks, which was not a

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Porting KVM to QEMU CVS

2006-12-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Any thoughts? SMM continues the tradition of making each x86 generation hackier than before. What happens (probably) is that the virtual hardware unmaps the vga memory when SMM is entered, and uses the physical memory at these addresses (which is

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Match virtual machine processor vendor to that of the host

2006-12-20 Thread Jeremy Katz
Currently, kvm ends up just using the standard qemu cpu initialization. This means that all x86_64 virtual machines appear to have an AuthenticAMD (AMD64) processor. This ends up causing a problem when booting some x86_64 Linux kernels as they attempt to do AMD64 specific initialization for

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Support for QEMU's CVS

2006-12-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
Howdy, The attached patch forward ports the KVM patch to QEMU's CVS. The only significant change needed was hacking the Bochs BIOS to dynamically disable SMM support if KVM is enabled. This was done by using one of the Bochs DEBUG ports. Probably not the best long term solution but it