Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: david ahern wrote: Are you interested in collecting ports of the drivers for various distributions? What we would like to do, is have the kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git tree autogenerate backports for as far back as we need them. Posting what you needed to do for

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Initial release: - kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 - kvm-guest-drivers-windows-1 Out of the bunch only Win2000 drivers work. 1. kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 fail to configure themselves, while 2. XP drivers halt the VM. I think Yan has newer XP drivers. -Alexey, 19.3.2008

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread david ahern
Avi Kivity wrote: It might be difficult for RHEL 4, which is 2.6.5 based IIRC. If the magic required is more that 500 millithaums, then an independent driver would be better. RHEL4 is based on 2.6.9. What do you mean by magic required is more that 500 millithaums? david

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread Anthony Liguori
david ahern wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: It might be difficult for RHEL 4, which is 2.6.5 based IIRC. If the magic required is more that 500 millithaums, then an independent driver would be better. RHEL4 is based on 2.6.9. What do you mean by magic required is more that 500

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread Avi Kivity
david ahern wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: It might be difficult for RHEL 4, which is 2.6.5 based IIRC. If the magic required is more that 500 millithaums, then an independent driver would be better. RHEL4 is based on 2.6.9. What do you mean by magic required is more that 500

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-19 Thread david ahern
I cringed a bit when you suggested the awk script route. It's quite likely that drivers for older distributions have to be manually updated as needed. I'll post my RHEL4 version in the next couple of days for comments. thanks, david Anthony Liguori wrote: david ahern wrote: Avi Kivity wrote:

[kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-18 Thread Avi Kivity
This is the first release of the kvm drivers disc -- a collection of kvm guest drivers packaged as an ISO 9660 CD-ROM for easy installation. The driver disc can be obtained from the kvm download page, below. Initial release: - kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 - kvm-guest-drivers-windows-1

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-18 Thread david ahern
Are you interested in collecting ports of the drivers for various distributions? I have the virtio drivers working with RHEL4. The virtio_net appears to be working better than e1000 for the workload I am testing with (though I still the need the noapic boot option). The virtio_blk driver mostly

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-driver-disc-20080318

2008-03-18 Thread Anthony Liguori
david ahern wrote: Are you interested in collecting ports of the drivers for various distributions? What we would like to do, is have the kvm-guest-drivers-linux.git tree autogenerate backports for as far back as we need them. Posting what you needed to do for RHEL4 would be helpful.