[kvm-devel] [GIT PULL][RESEND] KVM cpu hotplug fixes

2007-06-01 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, Please pull from the repository and branch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git hotplug-linus to receive a patchset which makes cpu hotplug (and therefore, suspend and resume) more robust when running virtual machines. The core issue is that we need a notification

Re: [kvm-devel] compile error

2007-06-01 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: I met an error when i build latest KVM on rhel5. Seems asm/cmpxchg.h is not in the kernel before 2.6.22. How can I fix the issue? Add a kernel/include/linux/asm/cmpxchg.h, which defines set_64bit() for both i386 and x86_64. -- Do not meddle in the internals of

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/3] virtio infrastructure: example block driver

2007-06-01 Thread Carsten Otte
Rusty Russell wrote: Now my lack of block-layer knowledge is showing. I would have thought that if we want to do things like ionice(1) to work, we have to do some guest scheduling or pass that information down to the host. Yea that would only work on the host: one can use ionice to set the io

[kvm-devel] install kvm on opensuse10.2

2007-06-01 Thread Maria Casale
I have got an Intel Core Duo T2400 processor. I added the repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/kraxel/openSUSE_10.2/i386/ I installed kvm and kvm-kmp. I added kvm modules in etc/sysconfig. I ran qemu-kvm and this appeared: Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support. I

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Use symbol insted of number

2007-06-01 Thread Nguyen Anh Quynh
This patch makes hypercall.c use symbol instead of number with hypercall-ioport-size. Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch2 Description: Binary data - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express

Re: [kvm-devel] Mac-Address uniqueness

2007-06-01 Thread Axel Kittenberger
That tends to consume dhcp leases quickly, if you start guests often (as I do). Also, some distributions use the mac address as a key for naming interfaces; if it changes, the guest gets confused Couldn't we do some sort of hash on the image path+filename? So same image starts always

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] make some functions/vars static

2007-06-01 Thread Nguyen Anh Quynh
This patch turns some local functions and variables in hypercall.c static. Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch1 Description: Binary data - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/9] KVM: Adds support for real NMIinjection onVMX processors

2007-06-01 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Fri, Jun 1, 2007 at 12:29 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Li, Xin B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this patch is complete to add NMIP support to KVM Could you be more specific on whats left to be done? From what I could read in the doc, this seemed complete. This is a good

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/3] virtio infrastructure: example block driver

2007-06-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jun 01 2007, Carsten Otte wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: Now my lack of block-layer knowledge is showing. I would have thought that if we want to do things like ionice(1) to work, we have to do some guest scheduling or pass that information down to the host. Yea that would only work on

Re: [kvm-devel] [GIT PULL][RESEND] KVM cpu hotplug fixes

2007-06-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: Please pull from the repository and branch No. Not after -rc1. Not for something that changes core code and isn't a core feature, and wasn't a regression. The core issue is that we need a notification [...] No. The core issue here is that people need

Re: [kvm-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/3] virtio infrastructure

2007-06-01 Thread Santos, Jose Renato G
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rusty Russell Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:19 AM To: kvm-devel; Xen Mailing List; virtualization Cc: Jimi Xenidis; Stephen Rothwell; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Herbert Xu; Christian Borntraeger;