Re: [kvm-devel] [CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing

2008-05-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> mandrake 9, 10 and winxp run but neither centos-5.1 i386 nor x86_64 >> are boot:-( i386 give a kernel panic x86_64 simple hang during boot. >> > > Can you post the panic? > > It's probably the 3Dnow! bug whi

Re: [kvm-devel] [CentOS-devel] KVM-66 packages in testing

2008-05-07 Thread Farkas Levente
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> there is something wrong with the current packages in the testing repo: >> - >> # yum install --disablerepo=\* --enabler

[kvm-devel] kvm-64 hang

2008-03-31 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, while kvm-62 works for us kmv-64 is hang at random position and even if it's start it's not able to login neither from net (can't connect) nor from console (through virt-manager's vnc i can give root username but after the password nothing happened). attached a screenshot of the boot hang

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, KVM62-RC2

2008-03-01 Thread Farkas Levente
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:12:03AM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >>> You can workaround these problems by using a different, less problematic >>> clocksource such as acpipm, until the TSC/migration issues are fully >>> resolved. >>&g

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, KVM62-RC2

2008-02-27 Thread Farkas Levente
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:38:59PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> Izik Eidus wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:58 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >>>>> Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >>>>>> H

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, KVM62-RC2

2008-02-26 Thread Farkas Levente
Farkas Levente wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:58 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >>> Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >>>> Hi, all, >>>> >>>> This is today's KVM test result against KVM62-RC2. >>>> >>>>

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, KVM62-RC2

2008-02-26 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:58 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >>> Hi, all, >>> >>> This is today's KVM test result against KVM62-RC2. >>> >>> Two old issues fixed: >>> 1. fc5/fc6/rhel5u1

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, KVM62-RC2

2008-02-26 Thread Farkas Levente
Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: > Hi, all, > > This is today's KVM test result against KVM62-RC2. > > Two old issues fixed: > 1. fc5/fc6/rhel5u1 no-acpi up guests can't boot on pae host > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1901208&group_ > id=180599&atid=893831 > 2. Cannot boot 32bit

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> will be a new release in the near future? since many of us waiting for >>>> this bug to be fixed on quad and other multi core cpu

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-25 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> will be a new release in the near future? since many of us waiting for >> this bug to be fixed on quad and other multi core cpus. >> >> > > Certainly. Can you try out the attached patch? thanks. it works!:-))) w

Re: [kvm-devel] The SMP RHEL 5.1 PAE guest can't boot up issue

2008-02-23 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > [copying Thomas for a question about CONSTANT_TSC, below] > > Yang, Sheng wrote: >> I believe I have found the root cause of SMP RHEL5.1 PAE guest can't boot up >> issue. The problem was caused by >> kvm:6685637b211ad67bdce21bfd9f91bc888b3acb4f >> "KVM: VMX: Ensure vcpu time

Re: [kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel 5ed4995.., userspace e44dce6..

2008-01-07 Thread Farkas Levente
Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: > Hi, all, > > This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git > 5ed49953ef3749de1198bc07cdf11339d8f74432 and kvm-userspace.git > e44dce6b8c8c8cf155223ba0e036bb4ace5071b1. > > 4. Cannot boot 32bit smp RHEL5.1 guest with nic on 64bit host > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?fun

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-56 release

2007-12-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> This restores live migration support which has been broken for a >>> couple of releases. Also, if you had Java problems please test >>> kvm-56, as it has some nx related permission

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-56 release

2007-12-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > This restores live migration support which has been broken for a couple > of releases. Also, if you had Java problems please test kvm-56, as it > has some nx related permission fixes. unfortunately 32bit centos guest still not be able to boot on 64bit host. -- Levente

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-55 test

2007-12-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> after we test kvm-55 no regression found to kvm-54, but 32bit guest on a >> 64bit host still not working (but now the boot process hang earlier the >> starting udev). another strange thing that win xp with 4vcpu guest

[kvm-devel] kvm-55 test

2007-12-07 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, after we test kvm-55 no regression found to kvm-54, but 32bit guest on a 64bit host still not working (but now the boot process hang earlier the starting udev). another strange thing that win xp with 4vcpu guest still see onlu one cpu inside the guest. setup: - host: - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Qua

[kvm-devel] kvm-54 test results

2007-11-28 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, we try kvm-54 and there are some prgress:-) - mandrake-9 boot again (so now all guest are able to boot), - 64bit centos-5 guest are running with smp, - 32bit centos-5 guest are boot with smp for the first time, but if i poweroff and start it again with 4vcpu then the boot hang at the usual "Sta

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > OK, I have found that Mandrake Linux 9.0 works on Intel/x86-64 on KVM-51. > > Does this help you for now ? > > I will try to look further. try with kvm-53! it do not even start to boot for me (actually i don't remember for the kvm-51 result but it may be worked with kvm-

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Hi Levente! > > Do you have a link where I can download Mandrake 9.0 ? > > Because I don't have this version, and don't know where to get it. ok. just to describe why we need it. our production servers run on mandrake-9 and mandrake-10. it's about 6-700 server runnin

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Hi Levente! > > Do you have a link where I can download Mandrake 9.0 ? > > Because I don't have this version, and don't know where to get it. we mirror this mirror site:-): rsync carroll.aset.psu.edu::MandrivaLinux/old/ or ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distrib

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> we made a quick try of kvm-53. in short there is no progress for us >> (since we need the mandrake-9 i586 guest too) so switch back to kvm-36. >> in detail: >> - guest-1 smp guest are hang at starting udev &

[kvm-devel] kvm-53

2007-11-21 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, we made a quick try of kvm-53. in short there is no progress for us (since we need the mandrake-9 i586 guest too) so switch back to kvm-36. in detail: - guest-1 smp guest are hang at starting udev - guest-1 sinlge cpu boot. - guest-2 both smp and single cpu guest boot. - guest-3 neither smp nor

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-52 seg fault

2007-11-14 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:56 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi >> while i try to boot our mandrake-9 single cpu 32 bit guest on our x86_64 >> host it always crash during kernel load. while in the host log i've got >> such messages

[kvm-devel] kvm-52 seg fault

2007-11-14 Thread Farkas Levente
hi while i try to boot our mandrake-9 single cpu 32 bit guest on our x86_64 host it always crash during kernel load. while in the host log i've got such messages: qemu-kvm[3155]: segfault at 2aa5a3e6 rip 004f2afd rsp 7fff4328a3e0 error 4 qemu-kvm[3197]: segfault at 2aa5a

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-14 Thread Farkas Levente
david ahern wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> anyway how should i've test noapic? qemu command line -noapic or guest >> kernel param noapic or both? >> > > Add 'noapic' to guest kernel boot options. I've been adding it for a while to > workar

Re: [kvm-devel] RHEL5 smp guests on RHE5.1 hosts hang with kvm-52

2007-11-13 Thread Farkas Levente
david ahern wrote: > (Changed the subject to correspond with email.) > > I am having the same problem on the 64-bit host running RHEL5.1 as well, it > just takes more reboots. Same symptoms as I mentioned for the 32-bit host. > kernel side stack traces for each qemu thread for one of the lockups

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: >> anyway it'd be useful to if i can see which version of the userspace >> running ie. give a short message into the stslog on the host about the >> userspace version may be even a warning in case of the kmod and the >> userspace version are different, but currently that's all: >>

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Laurent Vivier wrote: > Hi Levente, > > Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 10:07 +0100, Farkas Levente a écrit : >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> >>>>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>>>>

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> first of all fully update your centos (a bit newer kernel), then i use >>>> these packages: >>>> http://www.lfarkas.o

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-13 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> david ahern wrote: >> >>> Can you post the full qemu command that gets launched in each case? >>> >> this is the current running one, the only difference when smp set is -smp 4: >> >> root

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
the same machine in the x86_64 centos-5 guest. ps. please break lines around 75-80 chars otherwise it's almost unreadable in this case. > david > > > Farkas Levente wrote: >> david ahern wrote: >>> Can you post the full qemu command that gets launched in each

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> first of all fully update your centos (a bit newer kernel), then i use >> these packages: >> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/x86_64/ >> use libvirtd and virt-manager too and start the guests from there. and >

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
oot c -hda /dev/VolGroup00/mandrake-root -hdb /dev/VolGroup00/mandrake-swap -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:37:68:fd,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=18,script=,vlan=0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 > david > > > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Izik Eidus wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:07 +0100, F

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:07 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Izik Eidus wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:29 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>>> Small fixes and updates. >>>>> >>>&g

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
Izik Eidus wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:29 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> Small fixes and updates. >>> >>> Changes from kvm-51: >>> - fix efer reload host crash on T2600 and similar processors >>> - revert

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-52 release

2007-11-12 Thread Farkas Levente
Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Hi Levente ! > > The only idea that I have for you is to: Try to run KVM on newer kernel. > (2.6.21+) > > I did all of what you said on Fedora 7/x64 host (2.6.21 default kernel) > and it all worked ! (except Mandrake 9.0, which I don't have) that's exactly which i'm not

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

2007-11-11 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> With that change, kvm-51 compiles. I am still seeing 32-bit SMP guests >>>> hang on boot for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts (again running RHEL5.1). >>>> >>> I still don't. C

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

2007-11-11 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > david ahern wrote: >> In RHEL 5.1 defines: >> >> #define CPU_TASKS_FROZEN0x0010 >> >> #define CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN (CPU_ONLINE | CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) >> #define CPU_DEAD_FROZEN (CPU_DEAD | CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) >> >> which means in kvm-51/kernel/external-module-compat.h the '#i

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

2007-11-11 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out. >>> >> >> this version worse than kvm-50:-( >> setup: >> - host: >> - Intel(R) Core

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

2007-11-09 Thread Farkas Levente
rs to be an issue with the host > kernel. > > david > > > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out. >> this version worse than kvm-50:-( >> setup: >> - host: >> - Inte

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

2007-11-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out. this version worse than kvm-50:-( setup: - host: - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz - Intel S3000AHV - 8GB RAM - CentOS-5 - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit - guest-1: - CentOS-5 - kern

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-50 working with smp

2007-11-05 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> hi, >>>> it seems the latest kvm-50 working with smp both with 32 and 64 bit >>>> centos-5 are now running (ie not crash)

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-50 working with smp

2007-11-05 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> it seems the latest kvm-50 working with smp both with 32 and 64 bit >> centos-5 are now running (ie not crash), what's more it's even working >> if i trun back (ie on) acpi. but it seems much more slower with

[kvm-devel] kvm-50 working with smp

2007-11-05 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, it seems the latest kvm-50 working with smp both with 32 and 64 bit centos-5 are now running (ie not crash), what's more it's even working if i trun back (ie on) acpi. but it seems much more slower with 2 guests 4 vcpu then kvm-36 with 2 guests single cpu. is so much slower then it can be recog

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-48 release

2007-10-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Farkas Levente wrote: > Laurent Vivier wrote: >> Farkas Levente a écrit : >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>>> kvm-47 had a host memory corruption bug when setting the guest pte >>>>> dirty bit, so here's kvm-48 wit

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-48 release

2007-10-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Laurent Vivier wrote: > Farkas Levente a écrit : >> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> kvm-47 had a host memory corruption bug when setting the guest pte >>>> dirty bit, so here's kvm-48 with a fix. >>>> >>>

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-48 release

2007-10-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Farkas Levente wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> kvm-47 had a host memory corruption bug when setting the guest pte dirty >> bit, so here's kvm-48 with a fix. >> >> Note that guest time accounting, below, will only work with Linux 2.6.24+. > > smp guests st

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-15 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>>>> we did a quick test against this version and it's turn out the smp >>>>>> guests are still not working. even

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> we did a quick test against this version and it's turn out the smp >>>> guests are still not working. even if we start only one linux guest >>>> with >>>> 4cpu on 4cpu host the guest kernel hangs

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than >>> in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if >>> you want to share memory

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than > in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if > you want to share memory between guests and implement nice features like > swapping. we did a quick test against this version and it

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than >>> in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if >>> you want to share memory

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Farkas Levente wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: >> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than >> in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if >> you want to share memory between guests and implement nice features like >&g

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

2007-10-10 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace rather than > in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but also if > you want to share memory between guests and implement nice features like > swapping. > > Changes since kvm-45: > - fix host oops on

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-45 problems

2007-10-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >>> >>>> We run some booting multiple guest tests in our nightly testing. >>>> Like booting two UP windows guests, booting one UP linux gue

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-45 problems

2007-10-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Zhao, Yunfeng wrote: >> We run some booting multiple guest tests in our nightly testing. >> Like booting two UP windows guests, booting one UP linux guest and one UP >> windows guest, and booting 4 UP linux guests. >> The first two cases have no problem in our testing. >> And b

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-45 problems

2007-10-08 Thread Farkas Levente
Dong, Eddie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi, >> i'm just try kvm-45. for me it still unusable, so switch back >> to kvm-36:-( >> setup: >> - host: centos-5 x86-64 (4 core, 8gb ram) >> - guest: >> - centos-5 i386 4 cpu, 2gb >> - centos-5 x86-64 4 cpu, 1gb >> - mandrake-9 i586 2 cpu, 1gb

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1807620 ] KVM's --disable-gcc-check doesn't work

2007-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
Gregory Haskins wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:27 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > >> ok but now as qemu code was imported into kvm, then it's probably would >> be better to witch gcc-4.x? > > Sure. Are you volunteering? ;) I'm sure both upstream QEMU dev

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1807620 ] KVM's --disable-gcc-check doesn't work

2007-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
Gregory Haskins wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:33 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> what's the real reason that kvm can't be compiled gcc-4.x? >> wouldn't it be better to be able to compile with the current compilers too? > > Its actually an issu

Re: [kvm-devel] [ kvm-Bugs-1807620 ] KVM's --disable-gcc-check doesn't work

2007-10-04 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, what's the real reason that kvm can't be compiled gcc-4.x? wouldn't it be better to be able to compile with the current compilers too? SourceForge.net wrote: > Bugs item #1807620, was opened at 2007-10-04 18:25 > Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter > Yo

[kvm-devel] can't boot just: serial0 console

2007-10-01 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, after i try to merge centos and fedora kvm-36 spec files and patches (ethernet qemu fix etc) and start the guests on the new kvm host the guest install. the only thing what i got in qemu vnc window: serial0 console so the guest not even start to boot. anybody has any tip? may be the bios update

Re: [kvm-devel] system time

2007-09-27 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: >> this means it's better to run ntpd on all guests even if it's running on >> the host:-(( >> > > I think there are issues with running ntp on the guest due to tsc being > very inaccurate on virtualized guests. does this means itás not possible to run a guest with accurate t

Re: [kvm-devel] system time

2007-09-27 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Haydn Solomon wrote: >>> >>>> I know I'm not crazy.. now my host and guest clocks are in sync. I'll >>>> leave the guest running for a while and see if

Re: [kvm-devel] system time

2007-09-27 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Haydn Solomon wrote: >> I know I'm not crazy.. now my host and guest clocks are in sync. I'll >> leave the guest running for a while and see if it eventually goes >> ahead of host. >> > > Please do this both with and without -no-kvm-irqchip. The code paths > are very different

Re: [kvm-devel] FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM

2007-09-27 Thread Farkas Levente
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > A Fedora user reported that Vista networking isn't working with KVM[1] and > pointed to the Wiki > > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Vista_Networking_Workaround > > FYI, a patch from Xen was merged into upstream QEMU to fix this problem > with rtl8139 a week or two b

[kvm-devel] system time

2007-09-26 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, there is a strange thing which is just noticed. on our kvm host there is a ntpd running and synchronize to some time server and it's time is valid. so i decided that i won't run ntpd on the guest vms since if the host has the right time probably the guest see the same time. but that's not the c

Re: [kvm-devel] Test result for KVM, kernel 62d1ea7.. , userspace 667f2deff8..

2007-09-24 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, it seems we've got a real tester:-) for ma all of the bellow are serious bugs (tomorrow i'll try to send more detail of our host crash too) and imho the latest 'stable' version was kvm-36. wouldn't be better to postpone all patches and infrastructure changes (virtio and others) until these have

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

2007-09-24 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> Avi Kivity wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performanc

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

2007-09-24 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performance >>> improvement on Intel hardware. I get about 5% boost on a kernel build. >>> >>> There's a ne

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

2007-09-23 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performance > improvement on Intel hardware. I get about 5% boost on a kernel build. > > There's a new module parameter to kvm-intel.ko that can disable this > mechanism, bypass_guest_pf. Load the module with bypass_guest

Re: [kvm-devel] [et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-top 0.3.2.7 released

2007-09-21 Thread Farkas Levente
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/bin/virt-top --connect qemu:///system >>>> libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: &

Re: [kvm-devel] windows 2003 smp guest

2007-09-20 Thread Farkas Levente
Luca wrote: > On 9/20/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dor Laor wrote: >>> Haydn Solomon wrote: >>>> I have a question on guest smp performance. If I have a host with core >>>> 2 duo, should a kvm guest perform better using -smp 2 as

Re: [kvm-devel] windows 2003 smp guest

2007-09-20 Thread Farkas Levente
Dor Laor wrote: > Haydn Solomon wrote: >> I have a question on guest smp performance. If I have a host with core >> 2 duo, should a kvm guest perform better using -smp 2 as opposed to >> not using -smp 2? >> > Well, it depends: > In general Avi measured 40% performance increase for using a second c

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm daily snaphsots are now available

2007-09-20 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> For those of you who would like to assist in testing without waiting for >>> the next release, yet are uncomfortable with git, I've made available >>> daily d

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm daily snaphsots are now available

2007-09-20 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > For those of you who would like to assist in testing without waiting for > the next release, yet are uncomfortable with git, I've made available > daily development snapshots of kvm in > > http://people.qumranet.com/avi/snapshots/ > > If you report a bug in a snaphot, plea

[kvm-devel] emulating exchange as write

2007-09-19 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, on our host machine there is always a kernel message: --- kvm: emulating exchange as write --- why? why log it directly into the console and is it important? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-41 crash the host

2007-09-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >> >>> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> >>>> hi, >>>> kvm-41 crash the host after i start the guests (in 30 sec). both if i >>>> give more cpus to the guest, or even

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm-41 crash the host

2007-09-19 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> kvm-41 crash the host after i start the guests (in 30 sec). both if i >> give more cpus to the guest, or even if i give only one cpu per guest. >> the host console are full with: >> > > What host kernel?

[kvm-devel] kvm-41 crash the host

2007-09-19 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, kvm-41 crash the host after i start the guests (in 30 sec). both if i give more cpus to the guest, or even if i give only one cpu per guest. the host console are full with: do_page_fault do_page_fault error_exit do_page_fault do_page_fault error_exit do_trap do_invalid_op sysret_check error_exi

[kvm-devel] network problem with kvm-40

2007-09-19 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, with kvm-40 in a x86_64 host bridged mode: --- e1000: peth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex e1000: peth0: e1000_watchdog_task: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO --- while on the guests (both x86_64 and i386) are full with such

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-40 release

2007-09-17 Thread Farkas Levente
here's the console of x86_64 during the startap and where it's hang:-( Farkas Levente wrote: > i've try kvm-40 it now on centos-5 with kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 x86_64 > host (8gb ram and 4 core) and one centos-5 x86_64, centos-5 i386, > mandrake i586 guests. i try to gi

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-40 release

2007-09-17 Thread Farkas Levente
Dor Laor wrote: > i've try kvm-40 it now on centos-5 with kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 x86_64 >> >> host (8gb ram and 4 core) and one centos-5 x86_64, centos-5 i386, >> mandrake i586 guests. i try to give 4 cpu for the first 2 guest and 1 >> cpu for the last. after i start these 3 guests the host kerne

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-40 release

2007-09-17 Thread Farkas Levente
Dor Laor wrote: > i've try kvm-40 it now on centos-5 with kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 x86_64 >> >> host (8gb ram and 4 core) and one centos-5 x86_64, centos-5 i386, >> mandrake i586 guests. i try to give 4 cpu for the first 2 guest and 1 >> cpu for the last. after i start these 3 guests the host kerne

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-40 release

2007-09-17 Thread Farkas Levente
i've try kvm-40 it now on centos-5 with kernel-2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 x86_64 host (8gb ram and 4 core) and one centos-5 x86_64, centos-5 i386, mandrake i586 guests. i try to give 4 cpu for the first 2 guest and 1 cpu for the last. after i start these 3 guests the host kernel crash all the time after the

[kvm-devel] rpms for kvm on centos

2007-09-10 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, for those of you who can't wait for the centos testing rpms i recompile a few packages for centos-5: https://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/ there's no support for it and the centos repositories are always better then these packages:-) -- Levente "Si v

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> saying that guest SMP isn't working for you? The host OS definitely >>> shouldn't crash. Can you be more specific about what configs you are >>> using? There was a host oops fixed in kvm-36 so upgrading may help you. >> exactly. i've got 4 phisical core (Intel Core 2 Q

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> Point #1: >> >> I just wish someone had thought more about the name before selecting >> "KVM" ... because Sun has been using KVM (the K Virtual Machine) for >> its Java VM for embedded devices for some time. This just causes >> confusion on web se

Re: [kvm-devel] Intel-only or AMD Opteron as well?

2007-09-09 Thread Farkas Levente
On Vas, Szeptember 9, 2007 09:48, Avi Kivity wrote: > kvm is too new to have been included in RHEL 5. The enterprise distros > have a long lead time where the technology is tested and fixed, they > don't pick the latest kernel off kernel.org and ship it the next day. I > think RHEL 5 is based on

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
Anthony Liguori wrote: >> the host see as i've 4 cpu. i've got a change to gives more cpu to the >> guest, what's more they starts, but after a few minutes running the >> system crash. not just the guest os but the host os crash without any >> kind of info, log or any useful info what was the cause

Re: [kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
Luca wrote: > On 9/8/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> kvm is not ready for production use for many reason: >> it can't reboot which imho a very basic feature, what's more can't even >> shutdown/poweroff. the centos i386 guest are not able

[kvm-devel] (long) kvm and virt-manager not ready for daily usage

2007-09-08 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, in the last 2 weeks we play a lot with our new server which we but to a our virtual server for the development and collect some very subjective experience. we use kvm and virt-manager, but sometimes i'm not really sure about the whether it's kvm or virt-manager problem so i collect them togethe

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm guests are not able to restart

2007-09-03 Thread Farkas Levente
Luca wrote: > On 9/3/07, Farkas Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, >> i've got a centos-5 x86_64 kvm-35 host system with one centos-5 i386 and >> one x86_64 guests. but none of the guest are able to restart. ie. i >> login to the guests and restar

[kvm-devel] kvm guests are not able to restart

2007-09-03 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, i've got a centos-5 x86_64 kvm-35 host system with one centos-5 i386 and one x86_64 guests. but none of the guest are able to restart. ie. i login to the guests and restart it. it start's as normal reboot, but after the last command (shuting down md device) it's do nothing, but in virt-manager

Re: [kvm-devel] a few may be wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Farkas Levente
Gregory Haskins wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:07 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Farkas Levente wrote: >>> this rise another question if swapping will be used the it moves the >>> guest memory to the guest's swap or the host's swap? if to the host's &

Re: [kvm-devel] a few may be wiki question

2007-08-15 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > There are two answers to this: > > - balloon driver (like in Xen) which allows the host to move memory from > one guest to another (or from host to guest) > - swapping, which allows the host to move guest memory to disk and > allocate it to another guest > > Unfortunately the

Re: [kvm-devel] a few may be wiki question

2007-08-14 Thread Farkas Levente
Avi Kivity wrote: > There are two answers to this: > > - balloon driver (like in Xen) which allows the host to move memory from > one guest to another (or from host to guest) > - swapping, which allows the host to move guest memory to disk and > allocate it to another guest > > Unfortunately the

Re: [kvm-devel] a few may be wiki question

2007-08-14 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, first of all thanks for the quick reply! Avi Kivity wrote: > Farkas Levente wrote: >> - i read in faq 3.6: >> "for the host. 1GB is probably a minimum configuration for the host >> OS." >> does this means i have to reserve 1GB for the host

[kvm-devel] a few may be wiki question

2007-08-14 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, i try to setup a centos host server with kvm and a few guest os for the first time. imho there is only a very limited docs about kvm (even if i try to read them:-). so there are a few general questions: - which is the recommended host config?: - should i used x86_64 or i386 host kernel? i don