Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 680615e.., userspace 52be1a1..

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:25:11PM +0800, Yunfeng Zhao wrote: > 2. booting smp windows guests has 30% chance of hang > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1910923&group_id=180599 > Does it hang or bluescreen? What if you disable the FlexPriority optimization? ---

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel a16664b.., userspace3017d05.. one new issue

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:05:21AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > Can you try the following patch that disables flex priority: FWIW, Your MUA ate the patch. > kvm: vmx: for 4.0 disable Flex-Priority and always use Avi's tpr > optimization TPR patching doesn't work for SMP which is what he reporte

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel a16664b.., userspace 3017d05.. one new issue

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:27:32PM +0800, Yunfeng Zhao wrote: > One new issue: > 1. booting smp windows guests has 30% chance of hang > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1910923&group_id=180599 > PlatformWoodcrest > CPU 4 > Memory si

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > But max-partitions=16 give you "bad value". I suggested 16 because that's what the called to alloc_disk in the virtio block driver is using. I'm not sure why lilo dislikes that value. > Now I can boot it correctly. Thank you very m

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: >>> Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' > Thank you for your quick answer, but this doesn't help. After i run > lilo, it give me the same error message. did you try adding 'max-partitions=16' or similar? --

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > I test virtio block device. I can boot from vda as root partition, but > if I want to install lilo into boot sector, lilo give me this error: > > Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined. > Check 'man lilo.conf' un

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

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:12:42AM +0100, 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. I trie

Re: [kvm-devel] vmwarevga doesn't work: "get_dirty_pages returned -2"

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:16:27AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > I guess it needs the same treatment as cirrus and stdvga (register the > > framebuffer with kvm as a memory slot). > So my guess would be, that Linux targets with vmware vga shou