[kvm-devel] gfxboot disable

2008-02-23 Thread helicoterus-elih
I use opensuse 10.3 and I tried to install it on a vm. When I boot, it crashs. So I downloaded gfxboot disable file and I tried to complile, but pkg-config --cflags libiso9660 give me an error. I installed libiso9660-5 package. -

[kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1900228 ] Time on guest slows down sometimes...

2008-02-23 Thread SourceForge.net
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[kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted filesystem, without NPT/EPT. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] QEMU/KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Add an option so the user can specify the hugetlbfs mounted path, with fallback to 4k pages on error. Align the 4GB+ memslot on large page boundary. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: kvm-userspace.gitpara/qemu/hw/pc.c

[kvm-devel] Status of FreeBSD 6.3 as a guest

2008-02-23 Thread Colin Paul Adams
This isn't mentioned on the guest status page. I went ahead and tried it anyway (32-bit). It works fine if I don't specify -smp 2. But qemu rejects -m 2048. -m 1024 is fine. I had over 3GB available memory (I presume all the memory is pae-fixed to avoid both host and guest paging - if I'm wrong,

Re: [kvm-devel] gfxboot disable

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use opensuse 10.3 and I tried to install it on a vm. When I boot, it crashs. So I downloaded gfxboot disable file and I tried to complile, but pkg-config --cflags libiso9660 give me an error. I installed libiso9660-5 package. You probably need the development

Re: [kvm-devel] gfxboot disable

2008-02-23 Thread helicoterus-elih
I looked for a gz o bz archive. Is there a tarball with gfxboot disable program (URL)? Thanks. - - L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo!

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] QEMU/KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hi Marcelo, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Add an option so the user can specify the hugetlbfs mounted path, with fallback to 4k pages on error. Align the 4GB+ memslot on large page boundary. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: kvm-userspace.gitpara/qemu/hw/pc.c

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted filesystem, without NPT/EPT. FWIW, with NPT, I'm seeing kernbench get about a 4%

Re: [kvm-devel] gfxboot disable

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked for a gz o bz archive. Is there a tarball with gfxboot disable program (URL)? I'm not sure I understand your question but the only way to get gfxboot-disable today is through mercurial. Regards, Anthony Liguori Thanks.

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] QEMU/KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Anthony, Thanks for your comments. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:29:27PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: In general, I don't think it causes any real harm if we always align the ram address to a large page boundary. If we aren't on Linux (and can't determine what the large page size is),

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] QEMU/KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: I thought about doing that (gets rid of the 4GB+ special casing) but we lose the ability to compact smaller allocations in a single largepage. Right now the VGA BIOS and the BIOS fit in the same largepage, for example. Ah, good point. I was actually talking about

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't explicitly set BAR values for VMware VGA

2008-02-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Oh, good question, and I think the answer be the reason why it's not working here (*slaps self*). I'll apply the patch if you can confirm that it works with some Ms Windows install. I just tried with Windows XP and I have no problem detecting the card with this

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: large page support

2008-02-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed. Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted filesystem, without NPT/EPT. Applied, thanks (as well as the qemu part). -- error

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] fix screen corruption bug in vga_draw_graphic()

2008-02-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: hi, the attached patch fixes the screen corruption issues which were reported by others, see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/13543 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/13409 The bug is kvm specific and can only be

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't explicitly set BAR values for VMware VGA

2008-02-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Right now we set explict base addresses for the PCI IO regions in the VMware VGA device. We don't register the second region at all and instead directly map the physical memory. The problem is, the addresses we're setting in the BAR is not taken into account in the

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Move common VGAState attributes to VGA_STATE_COMMON

2008-02-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Soren Hansen wrote: vmware_vga.c uses functions in vga.c to do some things. They need to agree on which parts of their state struct is common and which aren't, otherwise they'll overwrite parts of each other's state. This patch makes it so. Applied, thanks. -- error compiling