[kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 6fd19d0.., userspace 7e9f4b6..

2007-12-20 Thread Zhao, Yunfeng
Hi This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git 6fd19d01a523fd82db3867402ed1774589bcf6c1 and kvm-userspace.git 7e9f4b6f37133f9b064d391ff59bd82efc6c6050. No new issue has been found. Save/restore test passed on IA32-pae host but failed on IA32e host again. Issues: 1. PAE host hanged on some

[kvm-devel] remove redundant VM Exit for non-aligned guest pte write or part of pte write.

2007-12-20 Thread Dong, Eddie
I observed 1-2 seconds faster in Windows XPSP2 ACPI bootup with total of 23 seconds. I can;t say it is exactly caused by this patch, but anyway it simplifies the logic and code w/o any additional complexity. thx,eddie A guest non-aligned pte write or part of pte update will leave

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm: external module: Remove 'include/asm' before execute 'ln'

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Yang, Sheng wrote: From 33d84813131809e962a4cd8cae9b66a9062fa8db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sheng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:22:18 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: external module: Remove 'include/asm' before execute 'ln' We use 'ln -sf' to refresh the symbolic now.

Re: [kvm-devel] remove redundant VM Exit for non-aligned guest pte write or part of pte write.

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Dong, Eddie wrote: I observed 1-2 seconds faster in Windows XPSP2 ACPI bootup with total of 23 seconds. I can;t say it is exactly caused by this patch, but anyway it simplifies the logic and code w/o any additional complexity. thx,eddie Patch looks good, but will delay so that the

Re: [kvm-devel] about apic in uniprocessor

2007-12-20 Thread Dor Laor
Pengcheng Liu wrote: hi, I'm using kvm-48 which has apic kernel support know. But I found when working on uniprocessor, the ioapic of kvm is not used. Kvm only use pic when it works on uniprocessor? What's the guest OS? If it is windows with standard HAL then you must change the HAL. If it's

Re: [kvm-devel] Guest kernel hangs in smp kvm for older kernels prior to tsc sync cleanup

2007-12-20 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
On Dec 19, 2007 1:41 PM, Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: Changes in rate does not sound good. It's possibly what's screwing up my paravirt clock implementation in smp. You should renew the timebase on vcpu migration, and hook cpufreq so that changes

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Option ROM for booting from SCSI/PV disks

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Hi, The attached patch is an option ROM that allows x86 guests to boot from any block device supported by QEMU (and the guest kernel). It works by hijacking the BIOS int13 function and then uses a very simply protocol to communicate all block requests to QEMU. This

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm/qemu : Enable coms init, since rtc added back

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
From: Zhang Xiantao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:30:56 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Enable cmos, since rtc has been added back. Enable cmos, since code is mature and rtc added back Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- qemu/hw/ipf.c |3 +-- 1 files changed, 1

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm/qemu :Add one empty entry in hob to adapt the requirement of open GFW

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
From: Zhang Xiantao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:34:38 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Add one empty entry in hob to adapt the requirement of open guest firmware. Since open guest firmware use hard-code to check hob entries, so add one empty entry to workaround it. Signed-off-by:

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Amit Shah
On Thursday 13 December 2007 05:09:20 Norbert Preining wrote: Hi all! (Please Cc, thanks) kernel 2.6.24-rc{3,4,5} kvm user space v55 kvm kernel space v55 or the one from the kernel Which host is this? Intel or AMD? I am trying to install a winxp (either plain or sp2) into a kvm:

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] kvm/qemu : Enable coms init, since rtc added back

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Zhang, Xiantao wrote: From: Zhang Xiantao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:30:56 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: qemu: Enable cmos, since rtc has been added back. Enable cmos, since code is mature and rtc added back Applied this and the next patch; thanks. -- error compiling

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Amit, thanks for the reply! On Do, 20 Dez 2007, Amit Shah wrote: kernel 2.6.24-rc{3,4,5} kvm user space v55 kvm kernel space v55 or the one from the kernel Which host is this? Intel or AMD? Host Intel Core2 We had this problem some time back, but it should be now solved. Are you

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] align gdbstub with QEMU

2007-12-20 Thread Jan Kiszka
Avi Kivity wrote: Jan Kiszka wrote: Jan Kiszka wrote: We've noticed some problems with current gdbstub in kvm's qemu: # qemu-system-x86_64 -hda myimage -S -s # gdb (gdb) tar re :1234 Remote debugging using :1234 Remote 'g' packet reply is too long:

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] align gdbstub with QEMU

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Jan Kiszka wrote: The qemu update did take place for -57, but a bit too mechanically. Please merge this patch to finally fix the gdbstub. Thanks, applied. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Amit Shah
On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:28:44 Norbert Preining wrote: Dear Amit, thanks for the reply! On Do, 20 Dez 2007, Amit Shah wrote: kernel 2.6.24-rc{3,4,5} kvm user space v55 kvm kernel space v55 or the one from the kernel Which host is this? Intel or AMD? Host Intel Core2

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Amit, On Do, 20 Dez 2007, Amit Shah wrote: Or better, can you git-bisect to a version that worked? That'll point out the I never had a version that worked, so it would be quite hard ... A couple of things you can try before doing that: use the -no-kvm switch and see if the install goes

[kvm-devel] external module sched_in event

2007-12-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello, My worst longstanding problem with KVM is that as the uptime of my host system increased, my opensuse guest images started to destabilize and lockup at boot. The weird thing was that fresh after boot everything was always perfectly ok, so I thought it was rmmod/insmod or some other sticky

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Amit, On Do, 20 Dez 2007, Amit Shah wrote: I never had a version that worked, so it would be quite hard ... Oh that is strange. This is the first such report. Do non-windows guests work fine for you? Is there any BIOS update available that you can install? Well, I did start playing

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Export three symbols for kvm use.

2007-12-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:57:01PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: Hi Tony, In order to build kvm source successfully, we need to export three symbols for kvm use. Please review. Maybe Avi can check-in to kvm.git upstream first. Thanks Xiantao From: Zhang Xiantao [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [kvm-devel] installation of win xp hangs

2007-12-20 Thread Amit Shah
On Thursday 20 December 2007 22:10:48 Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Amit, On Do, 20 Dez 2007, Amit Shah wrote: I never had a version that worked, so it would be quite hard ... Oh that is strange. This is the first such report. Do non-windows guests work fine for you? Is there any BIOS

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Export three symbols for kvm use.

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:57:01PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: Hi Tony, In order to build kvm source successfully, we need to export three symbols for kvm use. Please review. Maybe Avi can check-in to kvm.git upstream first. Thanks Xiantao From: Zhang

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Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Export three symbols for kvm use.

2007-12-20 Thread Avi Kivity
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:57:01PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: Hi Tony, In order to build kvm source successfully, we need to export three symbols for kvm use. Please review. Maybe Avi can check-in to kvm.git upstream first. Thanks Xiantao From: Zhang

Re: [kvm-devel] [1-5/17] Patch 1-10 of kvm/ia64 V2

2007-12-20 Thread Akio Takebe
Hi, Xiantao I got reading kvm-ia64 started. :) Which member is p2m table? [2/17] Add kvm-ia64.c to support kvm module on Itanium processors. Some trivial comments. +int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque) +{ + int r; + struct kvm_vmm_info *vmm_info = (struct kvm_vmm_info *)opaque; + +

Re: [kvm-devel] [1-5/17] Patch 1-10 of kvm/ia64 V2

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Hi Akio, Thank you for your comments. Xiantao Akio Takebe wrote: Hi, Xiantao m: already loaded the other module!\n); + r = -EEXIST; + goto out; + } + + r = -ENOMEM; extra white space. Yes. One more white space here. + kvm_vmm_info =

Re: [kvm-devel] [1-5/17] Patch 1-10 of kvm/ia64 V2

2007-12-20 Thread Akio Takebe
Hi, Xiantao [3/17] Add firmware virtualization support. +void kvm_sal_emul(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + + struct sal_ret_values result; + u64 index, in1, in2, in3, in4, in5, in6, in7; + + kvm_get_sal_call_data(vcpu, index, in1, in2, + in3, in4, in5, in6,